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But that means nothing. I could say I'm a Jedi and wear the robes and wave a broom stick around making really good swooshing sounds and everything. Get everyone I know to agree I'm a Jedi. But it's still not true.
Jews arnt a race.
The whole concept of a 'race' is obsolete and unhelpful. When applied to Jews it is also heavily freighted with racist baggage. But it does not follow that it is strictly a matter of religious faith. There is a vast amount of culture and ethnicity that goes into being Jewish. There is also identifiable biology and genetics, which is a lot more relevant than the misleading word 'race'.
But I resist very strongly the nonsense that being Jewish is solely about religious observance or belief.