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JewAny person whose religion is Judaism. In a wider sense the term refers to any member of a worldwide ethnic and cultural group descended from the ancient Hebrews who traditionally practiced the Jewish religion. The Hebrew term Yehudi, translated as Judaeus in Latin and Jew in English, originally referred to a member of the tribe of Judah. In Jewish tradition, any child born of a Jewish mother is considered a Jew; in Reform Judaism a child is considered a Jew if either parent is Jewish. Jew 1. a member of the Semitic people who are notionally descended from the ancient Israelites, are spread throughout the world, and are linked by loose cultural or religious ties 2. a person whose religion is Judaism |
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Second, the decision to admit Gentiles to the Christian movement on an equal footing with Jews meant that Jewish ethnicity could no longer serve as a quick and reliable extrinsic market for monotheistic belief. Douglas Rushkoff of New York University argues that the creation of Israel and the stress on Jewish ethnicity rather than on universal moral and religious values have seriously endangered Judaism's religious sensibility: "The fear of further reprisals confirmed the Jewish identity as a quest for survival against all odds, while limiting the definition of Judaism from a set of universal ideas to an indelible racial brand. The number of Jews who identify with a religion other than Judaism has more than doubled in the last decade, marking a growing split between Jewish ethnicity and religion," reports Debra Nussbaum in the Jewish Week. |
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