Theos-Talk Archives (February 2003 Message tt00179)

Leon:
of religious believers (Jews are neither a tribe nor a race) would have to 

Nice joke.
I have hundreds of statements from leading Jews past and present that Jews are a race, from Karl Marx over Benjamin Disraeli to Benjamin Franklin, Menachim Begin and Chaim Weizmann.
Do you want me to go to my shelves and look for them?
And why did HPB classify the Jews as a race? Moreover as an artificial race?
Another question would be: Are the Jews today the decendants of the historical and biblical Hebrews or not? And if not, if they actually were just Ashkenazins what political and geographical implications would follow from it?
Frank



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