Define "Jew".
No, seriously: what do you mean by the term?
Does "Jews" refer to an ethnic group, or to a group of people who practice a certain religion?
I suspect that there are a lot of people who identify themselves as "Jewish" who haven't darkened the door of a synagogue, read Torah, or refrained from eating ham in decades (if ever). To put them in the same category as those who keep kosher etc. is more than a bit silly.
IMO.
Thank you.
No, seriously: what do you mean by the term?
Does “Jews” refer to an ethnic group, or to a group of people who practice a certain religion?
I suspect that there are a lot of people who identify themselves as “Jewish” who haven't darkened the door of a synagogue, read Torah, or refrained from eating ham in decades (if ever). To put them in the same category as those who keep kosher etc. is more than a bit silly.
IMO.
Same can be said for many “Christians”.
They go to a “christian” church like 0bama, or a liberal social justice church where God is a mist on the meadow.
Or, they are like several members of my conservative church; they consider themselves christian but never darken the door and the FBI couldn't fine them, but when they die their obit will claim their lifelong membership in said church.
“Does “Jews” refer to an ethnic group, or to a group of people who practice a certain religion?”
Historically, the term refers to the ethnic group; and while we might make distinctions between practicing and non-practicing Jews amongst ourselves, anti-semites wont.
For instance, I can’t imagine anyone asked Leon Klinghoffer if he was a practicing Jew before murdering him. His name was enough.