Kevin, I would agree with you, I use race so that non-jews who can't accept that jewish isn't just a religion understand.
For myself, I consider myself of jewish HERITAGE. Which does make sense. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:32 AM Subject: RE: Caucasian Jews > Judith, I'm not contending the cultural identity of being Jewish and I know > from personal experience that there are many non-religious Jews. I was > simply trying to interject a point about the misnomer of this thing we call > "race". > > To be pedantic, I wouldn't call it a nationality either. Isreali is a > nationality, and there are many non-jewish Israeli. And that gets really > weird in this whole discussion. We have a peoples that were originally > defined by their religion being non-religious and we have citizens of a > country that was originally bequeathed by a god that some of the citizens > don't even believe in. It's no wonder there is confusion. > > Kevin Graeme > > > So call it nationality. The point is, the thing that makes a Jew > > a Jew, even if he or she doesn't practice the religion, has to do > > with whether or not his or her mother is a Jew, or whether or not > > the person in question converted to Judaism (a true conversion). > > This is the traditional view by Jewish law. So if you don't want > > to call it race, call it something else, but it's not strictly a > > religion thing. > > > > Judith > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
