Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.
Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
Our people represent a tapestry of interwoven identities embodying the rich diversity of what it means to be Jewish.
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.