Pemalite said:
"Jews" aren't a race. Not in the strictest sense.
They represent an ethnoreligious group.
You absolutely can be an American born "jew". You can literally decide tomorrow to be a Jew. It's a religion... Aka. Judaism that adheres to the Torah, the first and oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, the others being Quran/Muslims and the Bible/Christians.
And just like Christianity and Islam, people can be indoctrinated into that religion.
So in my eyes, diversity doesn't include religions or cults or beliefs. |
You sorta have to seperate the Religion from the Ethnoreligious. You can follow the religion tomorrow (most rabbi and synagogues wont accept you through till you go through conversion. It dumb but it not like Christianity who will accept anyone, Judaism generally require you to go through all these steps to convert if you want to be a member of a synagogue. Some synagogue are insane for example I had a cousin and when they went to get marry by a rabbi they made them prove that her mother was jewish, her mother Mother was jewish and her Mother mother Mother was jewish before he would do the marriage. They less strict with men (he only had to prove his mother was jewish and not go back multiple gens) because if the mother jewish then the child is jewish(in the sense they will be welcome without needing to convert))
The Ethno part of Ethnoreligous is a shared heritage which means you need to be born into. For example when I do a DNA test it came back 100% eastern European Jew. I don't follow Judaism but nothing going to change the fact that my DNA connects me to that Ethnoreligous group.