Who and/or What Is A Jew?

IMPORTANT!!!!
JEWS ARE NOT A RACE !!!

Jews can be . . .
Chinese Ethiopian

Indian

Definition of a Jew
A Jew is a member of a people by birth or by conversion, who chooses to share a common cultural heritage, religious perspective, and spirituality derived uniquely from Jewish experience and wisdom. ~ Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer ~

What is race?
A genetic classification Specific physical features skin color hair color and texture eye color

RACES
Caucasian Negroid Mongoloid African Pygmy American Indian

JEWS ARE NOT A RACE !

Jews are members of a religion or ethnicity that share a common value system by choice or by ancestry.

CONNECTEDNESS
The Bible and Jewish literature refer to the Jewish people as the Children of Israel

All Jews are the physical or spiritual descendants of Jacob, who was later called Israel.

What is Judaism?
It is a religion

based on a set of ideas about the world and how one should live ones life.

FOUR COMPONENTS
Belief in one God monotheism Belief in the laws of the Torah Belief in Israel as their nation/homeland Belief in choseness

CHOSENESS
Jews believe they were chosen by God to fulfill His mission to bring the world to God and Gods law.

Misinterpretation of this idea has led to AntiSemitism - hatred of the Jews

Chosenness
The mission to bring the world to God challenged societies and made moral demands.

Jews were willing to die for their values.

Jews Set Apart

Education - obligation Drunkenness a sin Tzedeka charity is a duty Family - sacred

ANTI-SEMITISM
Semitism the religion, culture, and customs of the Jews

Anti-Semitism hatred of the Jews.

Known as The Longest Hatred in history

HISTORY of ANTI-SEMITISM
Jews gave the world monotheism Jesus lived and died a religious Jew His followers were all Jews The Last supper was a Passover celebration

BREAK FROM JUDAISM

Conflict between Jews and Romans Jesus protested Roman law Jesus arrested by the Romans Romans helped by the Jewish High Priests Romans crucified him.

Jews do not practice or believe in crucifixion.

New Testament
Reinforced the idea that Jews murdered God Deicide

Because of the collaboration of a few, Jews were called Christ Killers.

Blood Libel
Mid-12th century Murdering Christian children and using blood for rituals Jews guard themselves against being tainted by any blood False accusations centuries of murder of Jews

PERSECUTION CONTINUES
The Crusades Black Death in England Spanish Inquisition Pogroms throughout world history 1905 -Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The Holocaust

Threat Continues . . .

SADLY . . .
Thousands of years of persecution and jealousy enabled Germany, a Christian nation, to justify the slaughter of 2/3 of Europes Jews. The government and most churches preached the necessity of the Jews removal.