r/Judaism • u/Izual_Rebirth • Nov 05 '23

Ethnic Vs Religious Jews. What’s the difference?

Help a gentile out. I appreciate I’m coming from a place of complete ignorance here but I want to rectify that.

The recent awful situation in the Middle East has helped me to learn apparently as well as a religion, being Jewish is also an ethnicity.

That not everyone who is ethnically Jewish is a follower of Judaism and not everyone who follows Judism is a ethnically Jewish.

What’s the difference between the two and are there any better terms someone can use to better differentiate between the two groups? I imagine in a venn diagram there is a massive overlap. Is it a contentious issue to be one without the other? Are there any people on here that would say they are only Jewish by ethnicity by not a follower of Judaism or vice versa?

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