A.B. Yehoshua: A.B. Yehoshua / Why do we insist on a 'Jewish' state?
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Title:"The Jewish faith is an optional part of being a Jew"
Name:Giora Me`ir
City: USAState:
That may be true, but that doesn`t mean Judaism is an ethnic group. There are non-practicing Catholics, but that doesn`t make them an ethnic group. The same with non-practicing Jews. lack of observance does not transform a religion into an ethnicity. While Jews have aspects of an ethnicity due to inbreeding, Judaism, and its historic national manifestation, Israel, remain a religion and a religious state.