To: maceng2 who wrote (1462 ) 10/5/2002 8:35:43 PM From: craig crawford Respond to >> The only jewish race is the one down at the horse race track. <<"Let us all recognize that we Jews are a distinct nationality of which every Jew, whatever his country, his station, or shade of belief, is necessarily a member." "The distinctive character of the Jew does not arise solely from his religion. It is true that his race and religion are indissolubly connected, but whatever be the cause of this junction of the race idea with the religion, it is very certain that the religion alone does not constitute the people. A believer in the Jewish faith does not by reason of that fact become a Jew. On the other hand, however, a Jew by birth remains a Jew, even though he adjures his religion." "The Jews are something more than mere ‘followers of a religion,’ namely, they are a race, a brotherhood, a nation." "A Jew belongs to his race and consequently also to Judaism, in spite of the fact that he or his ancestors have become apostates." "Israel is assuredly a great nation....Israel is recognized as a nation by those who see it; no one could possibly mistake it for a sect. To deny Jewish nationality you must deny the existence of the Jew." "The idea that Jews are a religious sect, precisely parallel to Catholics and Protestants, is nonsense." "The Jews were originally a nation, and have retained more than most nations one of the elements of nationality – namely, the race element; this may be proved, of course, by the commonsense test of their distinguishability. You can more easily see that a Jew is a Jew than that an Englishman is an Englishman." "It is enough for us to know that the Jews have always felt themselves as a separate race, sharply marked off from the rest of mankind." "The name of their national religion, Judaism, is derived from their national designation. An un-religious Jew is still a Jew, and he can with difficulty escape his allegiance only by repudiating the name of Jew."
