Jews are a race, mostly, though
It's to do with the whole "you're only Jewish if your mum was Jewish" rule, unless you convert
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 9:27, 3 replies)

Judaism is a religion, isn't it? Can't one convert to Judaism, and/or leave it?
"non-practising" jews, converts, etc?

That sounds like a choice thing to me - not a race.

For all my rather charming and conceited flippancy, it's important to delineate types of bigotry and not to over-use calls of it - something Sasha Baron Cohen highlighted with the Ali G character.

Inappropriate cries of "racism" and "is it because I is ... " lead to a "cry wolf" syndrome where such calls become background noise and increasingly ignored.

It's for this reason that people who make unfounded accusations are punished.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 9:57, closed)

It's possible to join, but it's usually because the convert in question is marrying a Jew
Generally you're either born into it or you're not - non-practising Jews are people who are born into it but are essentially atheists

It's a murky area, but I'd say Jews are more of a "race" than Islams or Xians are
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:09, closed)

My mum is half Jewish (nightmare worrier and hen pecker)
Non practicing but I don't consider it a race, who had the last laugh here?

edit- oh the fact he is in the paper, he doesn't look to comftable with that.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 10:03, closed)

As I understood it, you can be 'ethnically Jewish' or 'culturally Jewish'.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 10:36, closed)

How can one be "ethnically" Jewish
What with Judaism being a religion?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 10:49, closed)

It's a region as much as a religion, i believe.
In Cheshire, synagogues are full of refreshing orange jews.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 9 Feb 2011, 11:40, closed)

Royston Vasey, Shirley?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 12:29, closed)

Kewl kewl.

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:22, closed)

Dear Christ - those two words.
Brilliance.

"So - if you could just come in, and say the line, if that's OK? Kewl, kewl." - sheer genius.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 13:28, closed)