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This old thing. It is wrong and has always been wrong. Quoth:

"Race is a social concept used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, and/or social affiliation. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, in the 17th century, people began to use the term to relate to observable physical (i.e. phenotypical) traits." [0]

But more importantly, they are an ethnoreligious group, defined by shared ethnicity and religion. [1]

So, not all Jews are Jews, and not all Jews are Jews. But the classification is not always religious.

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_classification)

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoreligious_group



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