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Title: There is no jewish people (as people, not religion) ?
Post by: Dexter on July 21, 2007, 05:05:51 AM

How would you answer the claim that there is no jewish people ?

Title: Re: There are no jewish people (as people, not religion) ?
Post by: newman on July 21, 2007, 05:10:39 AM

It's not true but it's hard to put into words. Yes Judaism is a religion. Jews.....well they're an ethnic group of all races; a culture  with different sub-cultures; one people who share a common heritage that concists of a land, a people and ONE G_d. There is no comparrison anywhere in the world. A rabbi could explain better than I.

Title: Re: There are no jewish people (as people, not religion) ?
Post by: Ehud on July 21, 2007, 05:42:16 AM

DNA studies like this one:

http://www.aish.com/societywork/sciencenature/Jewish_Genes.asp

Or this one:

http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts.html

Title: Re: There is no jewish people (as people, not religion) ?
Post by: Dr. Dan on July 21, 2007, 08:24:40 AM

Quote from: Dexter on July 21, 2007, 05:05:51 AM

How you'll answer the claim that there are no jewish people ?

There are a Jewish people...secular to religious.  The thing is, we were scattered throughout the earth for 2000 years, but we didn't really lose our way..we kept something behind.

So luckily enough, a lot of us didn't lose ourselves...and lucky for us we are all different colors, shapes and sizes to prevent any genetic inbreeding.

The same goes with American people. You mean to tell me there is no such thing?  The USA has all kinds of nationalities who are proud to call themselves Americans..And the Americans have a citizenship and a way of life which varies from one individual to another.

So I say the same for the Jewish people and Israel.