Originally Posted by merleniau

To Jinn and everyone else in a hubbub about race: biologically, a race is a subspecies. There are no known subspecies of humans, because geographic and sexual isolation is a requirement for defining a true genetic race. The amount of variation within a race must be smaller than the amount of variation within the parent species, something that is impossible to achieve within the constraints of cultural definitions of race.

So, there is no Jewish race, as Hal said. There IS a religion, and there IS an ethnic association with such religion.