is judaism a religion or a race?

[ria]

i just want to know if judaism is a race or a religion.

thanks

 

[DrDeanCrosby]

Judaism is a religion but God has set the Jews apart from other people so much that even secular sociologists identify them as a distinct race,thus the expression "God's chosen people".

 

[IMNOAHLOL]

Why not both?

*raised up by a group of Mexicans*

 

[Jmydën'smmuntm]

It's a religion, cupcake. You're confusing being Jewish with Judaism.

Some, but by no means all Jews come from a particular ethnic or cultural group in which the religion aligns with an ethnic or cultural identity, and those groups are sometimes endogamous (marrying only within the group), and Jewishness - but not Judaism - is believed to be inherited from one's parents.

A person can be Jewish by birth or conversion, but Judaism is a religion.

One thing it is not is a "race."

 

[PirateAM™]

Both. It's a cultural religion tied to a "race", but it "grudgingly" allows converts and Jews can convert to other religions.

 

[Aravah]

JEWISH answer: RELIGION

There is NO Jewish "race"

It is NOT a race nor ethnicity because there are Jews of every ethnic group.

You can change your religion and no longer be considered Jewish.

You cannot change your ethnic background.

Here's an experiment: look up photos of Yaphet Kotto, Alyson Hannigan, Adam Sandler, Natalie Portman, Lauren Bacall and Harrison Ford

Are Jews one ethnic group? Obviously not - all of them were born Jewish.

Being born Jewish refers to Jewish law – there are responsibilities and privileges in Judaism and laws were established to determine who is a Jew and who isn’t. That does NOT mean being Jewish is a race or ethnicity.

For example: one cannot partake of communion in a Catholic church unless you are Catholic and have recently gone to confession. A non-Jew cannot read from the Torah scrolls at synagogue.

 

[Eclipselgirl]

it is both a religion and an ethnicity

 

[CaptainSarcastic]

Judaism is a religion. Jewish can mean both a religion and a race.

 

[Lol]

Religion as you can stop being Jewish

 

[RePeterson]

It's a monotheistic (religious) way of life....Also called Tanakh.