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Jewish identity underwent a significant shift in the centuries that followed the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. The initial conception of the Jews as an ethnos, albeit one with a distinctive religious culture, gradually shifted to that of a religious community that also identified as a nation. [11]
Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people, [1] from its formation in ancient times until the current age. Judaism itself is not simply a faith-based religion, but an orthoprax and ethnoreligion , pertaining to deed, practice, and identity. [ 2 ]
Jewish nationhood is a complex and multifaceted concept that encompasses shared history, culture, religion, and a sense of belonging to a community, and has been a driving force in the preservation of Jewish identity throughout history and continues to shape the Jewish experience.
Embracing Jewish identity within DEI framework is not merely a matter of justice; it is an essential component in developing truly inclusive spaces that honor the full diversity of human experiences.
The Jewish community in the Upstate may be small, but a 78-year-old organization and its first CEO are trying to ensure that individuals can unify around a common identity and culture.
Judaism guides its adherents in both practice and belief, and has been called not only a religion, but also a "way of life," [183] which has made drawing a clear distinction between Judaism, Jewish culture, and Jewish identity rather difficult.
In doing so, Herzl and his followers challenged the centuries-old tradition among assimilated Jews that they constituted a religious and socio-cultural group by reframing Jewishness in terms of the concept of a nation-race, with Jews conceived of as an "integral biological entity" [47] in what has been called a "racialization of Jewish identity".
[9] [10] [11] They argue that only patrilineal descent can transmit Jewish identity on the grounds that all descent in the Torah went according to the male line. [12] Only someone who is patrilineally Jewish (someone whose father's father was Jewish) is regarded as a Jew by the Mo'eṣet HaḤakhamim, or the Karaite Council of Sages based in ...