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Wherever you go, you're bound to run into a Jew. Whether it's Sydney, Australia or New Delhi, India there are almost always Jews. But whom can you define as a Jew? This is where the controversy comes in. About half say it’s a race, while the other half strongly disagree saying that it couldn't be a race. First, we must say that there is such thing as race. Second, let's [|define a Jew]. A Jew is anyone whose mother is/was Jewish or any person who has gone through the process of converting from their former religion to Judaism.

=Are Jews a Race?=

__Why Jews aren't a Race__ We already defined being Jewish: it's having a Jewish mother or converting. It is thought that all Jews (that don’t have any progenitors that converted) came from descents of people in the 12 tribes of Abraham. All tribes of Abraham were originally from Israel. This constitutes having a common ancestry. However, all Jews do not share one common ancestry, which is a usual component of a race. Also, there has been studies saying that a lot of Ashkenazi Jews share a biological distinction. Not everyone is an Ashkenazi Jews, so only some Jews share this trait. This brings up an interesting point. Ashkenazi Jews share this biological distinction because they have not had interracial communities. The movie [|Fiddler on the Roof] is not exaggerating. Up until recently Jewish communities have not allowed Jews to marry people of other religions - or probably races. I mentioned Ashkenazi Jews, these are Jews from Central and Eastern Europe, but there are also Sephardic Jews. From what I know there aren't groupings in most races. The most interesting piece of evidence that some people use to support the idea of Jews not being a race is the fact that people of different races have become Jewish. There are African Jews, Japanese Jews, Eskimo Jews, and so many others. Does this make their race African, Japanese, and Eskimo, or are they biracial?

__Why Jews are a Race__ On the other hand there are a bunch of reasons why Jews are a race. Well, Jews have a culture, food, a land, a language, and even diseases. That's a lot of things that a race usually has! [|Food] is always easy to identify with so lets start there. Have you ever heard of challah, falafel, rugelah, bagel and lox, gefiltah fish, Mandelbrot, or matzah ball soup? Those are all very traditional Jewish foods. Israel is called the Jewish state by both Jews and Gentiles and 5 of it's 7 million residents are Jewish. The Jewish language is Hebrew. That's what was spoke in the earliest written records of Judaism, and still is spoke in Temples today. Jews are more vulnerable to Tay-Sachs then anyone else. This is because some Jews have very similar genetic makeup, making these people all susceptible to Tay-Sachs.

To find out more about the correlation Race and Religion

Some link that should be good is Nathaneals =Racism against Jews=

__Nazis__ Hitler came into power and said that the master race was Aryan. This meant you had to have blue eyes, blonde hair, and light, usually white, skin. He thought everyone else was sub-human. The others included: people who were not originally from Germany, homosexuals, mentally challenged, Gypsies, but mostly people of the Jewish race. Hitler used this thought of the Jewish race to kill 6 million Jews. He convinced most of Germany that people of the Jewish race were bad and needed to be exterminated. Not only were people who practiced Judaism killed, but if one had a great grandparent that was Jewish, then you were Jewish, corrupt, and needed to be killed. If he could not have classified all those people as Jews then I bet a lot of them would be alive or have descendants today. This is an obvious reason why there shouldn’t be race, but the question if there are races still lives on.

//To learn more look at Megan's page about// Nazi Germany

__Holohoax__ Any intelligent person can say, knowing whole-heartedly that he or she is speaking the truth, that there was a Holocaust. How can you deny it? On Yom Hashoah, Holocaust memorial day, you'll find several hundred people speaking about the horrors that happened in Germany while Hitler was in power. Eleven million people got murdered, most of whom got gassed, a small percentage got burned alive, and people still think that it's all a hoax. They have even renamed it the Holohoax. You search that in any internet provider and you'll find thousands of websites saying that the holocaust was fake. They say that Jews won't let the Holocaust be researched. That because the Jews don't want the dead bodies dug up from the ground they are actually hiding the fact that those people never died. They take everything that somewhat relates the Holocaust and say that it never happened. Can you think of one good reason that someone would say that an enormous genocide wasn't real? Is there any reason why you wouldn't acknowledge something as big as this happening? Is there anything in it for them… other than saying that the Jews are liars. No.



__Jews knew beforehand about 9/11__ On [|September 11th, 2001] the World Trades Center collapsed dramatically killing 3,000 people. Almost all Americans believe that Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked planes which they crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Anti-Semites and Anti-Zionists think that Jews were notified and knew of the attacks beforehand. They say that 4,000 Jews decided not to come to work on 9/11, and that many Israeli's were joyful at the fall of the World Trades Center. But the truth is, that more than 300 of the people that passed away on that tragic day were Jewish.

Here's a great video about Jews doing 9/11 from CNN: []

In the future: 1. I want to learn about how some Muslims are being taught to hate people of the Jewish race (most Jews in Israel don't observe Judaism, they're just Jewish) 2. I want to research stereotypes of Jews and their origins 3. I want to learn about Jewish hate speech in America, and the laws around it

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