And less than half the Jews in Israel are Ashkenazi.. Juadaism is a religion, it accepts and embraces converts. Israel has immigrated thousands of Somali Black African Jews and others from around the world. Ashkenazi Jews are just one subsection, like Irish Catholics.
"And less than half the Jews in Israel are Ashkenazi.. Juadaism is a religion, it accepts and embraces converts. Israel has immigrated thousands of Somali Black African Jews and others from around the world. Ashkenazi Jews are just one subsection, like Irish Catholics."We're talking about European Jewry. After Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain, Ashkenazi became a predominant European Jewish group and constitute about 80% of the Jews worldwide. Until the mid-late 19th century and early 20th century they lived apart from and virtually did not intermarry with the ethnic populations of nations where they lived. Converts were few and a superminority. In the medieval times in some communities it was found out that a Christian converted to Judaism, it was punishable by death and the entire Jewish community would face persecution. Judaism accepts, but does not seek, solicit or encourage converts.
Judaism is a nationality that has a unique national religion tied to it. As for the Ashenazi/Sephardic difference... that’s like the differences between a Yankee and a Southerner. Yet both are still American.
And it wasn’t the Somalis that Israel took in, put the remenants of one of the lost tribes that had settled in Ethiopia.
Think about that. One of the lost tribes of Israel. If that isn’t a clear enough example of how Judaism is both a religion and a nationality...