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To: cosmicforce who wrote (9524)4/17/2002 6:57:56 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
Most Jews consider themselves a "people".

I'm not sure what the fuss is about. I grew up in a melting pot of immigrants. I grew up with the understanding that being Jewish had both a religious and ethnic component. The ethnic component seems reasonable to me in that Jewishness is passed on to one's children, who remain Jewish even if they abandon the religion, which many do. Jews in my neighborhood weren't looking for converts although people do convert. Jews can be a People without being racially pure or racist, which they aren't. I don't see why they shouldn't be considered equivalent to an ethnic group. With an asterisk, or course.
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