Are the two terms "American Jew" and "Jew in America" synonymous?
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The terms are almost synonymous.  The only difference I could see that is that the term Jew in America defnines a person as being Jewish, not American, and America is solely a geographical location, and not part of an identity.  The term American Jew seems to combine to aspects  - Jewish and American - in one identity.  Does that make sense?
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We have come to the point where it is considered improper or not politically correct to say certain things about certain racial or ethnic groups or even to refer to them in some specific terms. One of my pet peeves is the label "anti-semetic" that is attached to anyone who has the AUDACITY to say anything derogatory about Jews.  The implication is that somehow "anti-semitism" is bad, which to me is utter nonsense.  Why is it that it is not proper to say anything bad about a Jew? Why can we only think good things about Jews or else risk being labeled "anti-semitic" as though anti-semitism is some sort of a crime? It is all so ridiculous. If you make a statement such as "The percentage of Black males in prisons is 10 times the percentage of white males in prisons" there are people who will all fluff up into some overblown righteous indignation and say 'Oh, no no no no no you can't say that! That's RACIST"  Well, duh duh duh duhduh if it is based on fact it is fact, so where does racism come into it? Things have really spun out of control with all this nonsense.  Recently there was a whole big uproar (an obscure uproar, but an uproar nonetheless) over the fact that there are something like 500 little streams, brooks and creeks in the US named "Nig.ger Creek" or whatever.  Most of these names dated way back to the time when the use of such terminology wasn't even a dergoatory term.  Nowadays, if you say just about anything about anything, some self-righteous idiot will jump up and complain that is it racist.\n\nFrankly, I don't give a damn. And I don't think there is ANYTHING wrong at all with being a so-called 'anti-semite'.  It's my right, so there.
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Most Jewish names are relative to what their profession was when they came to america. For the most part the immigration officials couldnt pronounce their proper name and so they would make their name the same as what their profession was. For example a goldsmith would be known as Abe Gold because that was what he worked with.
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The word "Judaism" is related to the word "Jewish", and to the name "Judah", though it's not so obvious in English.  Here's how it happened:\n\n"Judaism" is derived from the name "Judah" -- it was used to refer to the religion of the 'people of Judah'.  "Judah" was one of the larger, more powerful tribes of the people of Israel, the tribe from which King David and his descendants come.  Most of the Israelite tribes to the north split off to form their own kingdom after the death of David's son Solomon (called "Israel" in the Bible, while the southern kingdom is called "Judah").  \n\nAfter the Assyrians destroyed the Northern Kingdom (Israel) late in the 8th century BC, only the kingdom of Judah remained.   They were the ones who fell to Nebuchadnezzar and many of whom were exiled to Babylonia. in the 6th century B.C.   And they were the ones who later re-established a kingdom.    Remnants of the other tribes joined them, but the tribe of Judah was still central, hence the people were known by this name.  \n\nA literal translation of the TERM used from them might be "Jud-ish" (compare the term "Judean").  In fact, most European languages use a form something like that.  German is Juedisch.     What causes confusion is the fact that English lost the "d" and ended up with the word"JEWISH", a form that is not obviously related to "Judah"/"Judean".\n\n(For what it's worth, the language spoken by many Jewish people in Eastern Europe is a dialect of GERMAN --not Hebrew-- called Juedisch, or in English, "Yiddish")\n\nOne other note: there was in the first century a lot more variety in "Judaism" (or perhaps we should say "Judaism-s").  The form we now identify as Judaism was the Rabbinic form that gained the ascendancy after the Temple was destroyed in AD 70.  (Remember too that Christianity was considered a Jewish sect in the first century; thus what we think of today as "Judaism" and "Christianity" were in a sense born at about the same time, two distinct offshoots of one tree.)
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An Israelite is someone who is from Israel, the same way an American is from America.  A Hebrew and a Jew are actually just two different words for the same thing- a person who practices Judaism- although the word Hebrew isn't used much anymore.
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American is a Christan/Jewish state!..no other reason to be anti Islamic!...and it mas been pr oven to be the reason why bin larden was blaimed for 9/11..when it was an insurance job!
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american german and russian
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http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm
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Are you referring to cultural fusion into the American subculture or over all integration of jews as a race and ethnic group?\n\nSince Judaism is a religion not an ethnicity,  I would have to say adaptation into the American sub culture was rather easy because different cultural and ethnic groups merged under the Judaism umbrella but each individual group still can maintain independent identity.  That is the exact mirror of the American cultural state.\n\nOther ethnic and cultural groups tend to be more defined and therefore stand out more but ultimately America was built on immigrants and fusion is guaranteed.
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Well, usually it depends how you use it in a sentence.  I comeplete agree that you could easily get offended if someone calls you a jew, putting the emphasis on the word "jew".  People make it sount like an insult don't they?  But it probably wasn't their fault;  they couldn't have known that it would hurt you.  You just have to give people a second chance, though give them a warning.
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If you want a full answer, you have to visit "Judaism 101" at www.jewfaq.com
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It is more of a culture/religion. Judaism is the religion and Jews are the culture that go with it. They have their own customs as with any other culture or nationality. One thing, you cannot change how you are, but you can worship any way you want.
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Oh its not just the Jews.  There are as many Muslims in the USA as there are Jews.  And about 10% of American citizens are foreign born.  Everybody wants to be an American.  We have big problems with between 10-13 million illegal immigrants in this country.  This is a country of 300 million people and the Jews are only 5 million. (1.7%)
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A Messianic Jew is someone who is an ethnic Jew, they are descendants of Abraham, but who believes in Jesus Christ as savior.  Jew can mean two things.  It can mean someone of the religion of Judaism, or it can describe someone who is of the Jewish ethnicity.
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Try to translate this I cant figure out how but this is supposedly the only way.\nThat damn guy was talking bout the jewish website well I found it.
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Semites are middle eastern people and include Arabs and Israelis.  The Jews in America kind of co-opted the term so they could accuse people of picking on them.  One stupid girl reporter from the US actually asked Anwar Saddat if he was "anti-Semitic".  Pres. Saddat told her that would be foolish of him since he was a Semite.
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because there are many wealthy jews in America. They are politically motivated and know how to use the money paying off greedy politicians in Washington DC. I kinda sound antisimetic I guess but its just the truth, I have nothing against Jewish people. I just think that we (Americans) need to mind our own business. it's not like everything is hunky dory over here you know. And my god, how many times does history need to repeat itself? No matter what we do, it comes back to bite us in the ass in the end.