[andresgottlieb]

I disagree. Judaism is not an ethnic group, it's many absolutely different and disjunct ethnic groups, that only have religion in common. A Jew from Yemen has nothing else in common with a Jew from Poland. Different language, different food,. different music, different physical resemblance, different interpretation of the Torah, etc.

I recommend reading The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand.

As a practical example. When my father (Ashkenazi) married my mother (Sephardic), my father's grandma was devastated, because he was marrying a non-jew.

[hersko]

Not a great example. In the orthodox community it is very common to intermarry between religious Sephardi and Ashkenazi jews.

> A Jew from Yemen has nothing else in common with a Jew from Poland

1) They descended from the same people 2) If they are religious, they have a tremendous amount in common

[jb12]

> A Jew from Yemen has nothing else in common with a Jew from Poland

Except for the genetics we share, distinct from non-Jews, statistically significantly.

I recommend reading "Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People" by Harry Ostrer.

We really are the people of the book, aren't we?