Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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.
I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.
Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.
I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am.