(May 10, 2009 at 3:37 am)Giff Wrote: Don't think so. Jews, or acctually Hebrews are a ethnoreligious group. But as a teacher I had can you become a member of this group by converting to the religion. So not a race.
wiki Wrote:According to the simplest definition used by Jews for self-identification, a person is a Jew by birth, or becomes one through religious conversion.
Actually, based on this, I'd have agree with Giff (and what I said originally)
If you can become a Jew by converting to judaism, I can't see how it can be a race.
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