For instance, do you consider someone being Jewish similar to someone being Italian or Polish? Recently, a Jewish man was telling me it annoys him when people (who aren’t Jewish) ask him what he is, because he knows they mean Jewish not what country his family is from.

You can also comment on whether you see Judaism as a race or just a religion or ethnicity or a people.

This is not a quiz with right and wrong answers, but more I’m interested in how people think about it.

Is an Iraqi Jew with darker skin, black hair, and dark brown eyes and a German Jew with blonde hair, pale skin, and blue eyes, part of the same people? What if the two have some different traditions, different culture? How do you explain it regarding them all being Jewish?

Topics: religion, nationality, ethnicity, Jewish, race