Why do some people consider the Jewish religion to be a race?

Answer 1

Because they don't know what race is. There are only three races on this planet--Caucasoid, *******, and Mongoloid. These three races have differentiating body structures that allow them to be identified using just skeletons.

Now, as for people thinking Jews are a race--Hitler was rather successful in his campaign and propaganda to try to convince people that Jewish is a race. I'm not saying that people who think that Jews are a race is anti-Semitic, no, not at all, and I am NOT comparing them to Hitler. But they do believe his misinformation.

Jewish is no more a race than Muslim is.

We can't really be called a nationality, either. We haven't had a nation for thousands of years, since the State of Israel, and even then, not all Israelis are Jewish. Jews have always been scattered across the globe--from Eastern Europe to Spain to the Middle East to the United States. (Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim) Jews from those places all have their own ethnicities, the cultures of their physical homelands--so a Jew from Bulgaria can't really be considered the same ethnicity as a Jew from Yemen, can he?

The truth is, Judaism is a religion and a cultural family. One can be born into a cultural family but can also join a cultural family--one cannot join a race or an ethnicity, and all people can become Jewish.

Peace

Answer 2

I'm not really sure where or why it started. I do know that there is an aspect of Judaism that transcends the religious practice. Even if you cease practicing the tenets of the religion, you are still considered Jewish until you die.

I quit practicing my religion a long time ago, and I still identify as Jewish.

Answer 3

I consider them to be a race!
They were a group of Humans who because of their belief in a single special GOD, kept themselves separate from the surrounding nations.
They only bred among themselves for at least 3 thousand years.
Well, yes some fell short of the rules and interbreed with the surrounding tribes and nations.
BUT, for the MOST part they as a Religion and a group of humans stayed separate for AT LEAST 3 thousand years.
Many of them still cling to the OLD BELIEFS, and marry only other Jews with the same strict beliefs. Now 6 thousand years later, there are still Jews who are part of not only the Jewish religion, but a pure Jewish lineage.
As a Christian I still consider them both a race and a religion.
No MATTER, what I think is right or wrong religiously!
They have rights to certain claims!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

So what's the big argument...semantics? Race...ethnicity...it's meant the same way. Jews are the only religion that has a cultural group. If I slip up and call it a race big deal. So it's an ethnicity. Let's be a little more PC why don't we.

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Answer 5

I MAY be missinformed but here is my belief:

The Jews were a nation before a religion. All who practice the religion are not of the race.

The Jewish nation has existed and been over run several times since biblical ages.

Answer 6

They're racists.
Jewish is a religion, not a race.

Judo is a martial art.
Jew-dough is money deemed to be kosher.

They get their way because everybody feels sorry for the oppression they went through that was caused by the knotzys.

Being Jewish is not a race because Jews do not share one common ancestry or biological distinction. People of many different races have become Jewish people over the years.

Being Jewish is not a nationality because Jews have been dispersed throughout the world for almost two thousand years. People of many different nationalities are Jewish.

Answer 7

Nobody is saying that the religion is a race. But "Jewish" can refer to both a religion and an ethnicity. It's possible to be one and not the other (well, depending on which sect you talk to). Sammy Davis, Jr. was religiously Jewish but not ethnically Jewish; Howard Stern is ethnically Jewish but not religiously Jewish.

Answer 8

No. There are Jewish religions and Jewish races. There is a lot of overlap, but they can be distinguished.

Answer 9

You mean the Jewish people not the religion. Judaism is the religion but the Jewish people encompasses all races.

Me and you seem to have the same problem with the tacos

Answer 10

You can be Jewish and not be a Jew by birth. You can be a Jew by birth and not believe in the Jewish religion...Sammy Davis Junior's religion was Jewish.... And he was born black,,,well he died black too, I guess..LOL....