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Judaism: religion or race?

Many of my non-Jew friends ask if Judaism is a religion or a race. That is something I always had doubts about until my first course about Judaism. I learned that Judaism is much more than a religion and NOT a race. “It is a way of life” that consists of three circles: Ethics, Spirituality and Peoplehood.
It is interesting that a person can live in one circle and not enter the other circles. It means that someone can be very engaged in the peoplehood and jewish ethics and not enter the spirituality circle.
For example, there was a guy at my Introduction to Judaism class that does not believe in G-d but thought that was very important to give a Jewish background to his kids. At first, I was totally confused about this but after learning about the three circles, everything fell into place.

posted by Ruth @ 11:15 PM