Judaism: Race, Religion, Heritage?

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Is Judaism a race?

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  1. The Just Ask! - AskTheRabbi.org Team

    Judaism is hard to define. On the one hand a Jew is defined as one born to a Jewish mother, but there are many types of people within that definition, all having common ancestry. Also the fact that one can become Jewish through conversion, no matter what race they are from, shows that it is not racial. Probably it would be more correct to define us as a nation. As the Jewish nation (not necessarily tied to the Jewish State of Israel).

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