[cajungirl]

My Jewish relatives tell me they are a race but I am not up to snuff on this. We need to ask a Jew on the forum if they are a race.

[cricket]

I would t hink they would have a good security system. ..at least, I would think some cameras going. This is the home of a Federal Judge. . .and one who has previously been threatened.

Not that delivery people etc./help do not have access; but perhaps some cameras at least to help in finding the perp of this crime.

A wife. . .four daughters. . .loved ones et al. . .

I guess murderers realize how many victims they really take. .

[gidget7]

Doesn't apply to this post anyway, just a curious question.

More to the point.....prayers to the family.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

"My Jewish relatives tell me they are a race"

No they are NOT. They are an ethnicity and/or a religion. (I know that doesn't sound grammatically correct, but it's the middle of the night and I can't think of the correct way to say it.)
Just like Hispanic is NOT a race; it is also an ethnicity.

There are only FOUR races:
Caucasian (yes, Jews/Israelites are caucasian)
Negroid (black american is also NOT a race)
Mongoloid (Asian)
American Indian

[nopardons]

No,Jew isn't a race,even though Hitler said it was.

There are only three races,Caucasoid,Negroid and Mongoloid. Everything else is a subdivision or a mixture.

[ariamne]

Maybe I can help with this--my father is Christian, my mother was (died in 2002) Jewish. I have accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior, but I am half Jewish because being Jewish comes through the bloodline of the mother. It is NOT a race, but a cultural heritage.

In Nazi Germany, Edith Stein, a jew, converted to Catholicism and became a nun. But when the ever efficient Nazis discovered she was born a jew, she was exterminated for it, even though she protested that she was not a jew, but a catholic.

And so I would imagine today if the islamofascists and radical left took over and began their extermination program, I would be killed as a Jew, not a Christian. As would my daughter, for being 1/4 Jew, though she is being raised Christian.

I am no expert on the subject, but this is my understanding.

[followerofchrist]

"My Jewish relatives tell me they are a race but I am not up to snuff on this. We need to ask a Jew on the forum if they are a race."

I'm not Jewish, but those I know who are say yes. Race and/or religion. What I don't know is if Lefkow was Jewish by race. My experience is that there are few Jews who convert to Christianity, so maybe Lefkow is a Jewish name which was adopted in some other country.

Again, prayers for the whole family. My heart goes out to Joan and her daughters. May they be a comfort to her.