JG concluded his comment by acknowledging an essential truth: "Jews do not recognize the racial categories under which other nations classify peoples." Indeed, we do not. The question is therefore primarily one for non-Jews, some of whom will respect our indifference to those racial categories (and reject the premise of the question), while others will not. A portion of the latter will apply their preferred racial classification of Jews to advance a particular agenda, which imparts information only about themselves, not about Jews.
A more contemporary problem is that large swathes of American Jews view the question as if they were non-Jews, and claim to be white or non-white, or most bafflingly, "Jews of Color". That they do so proves Glenn's point—notwithstanding David Josephson's valid arguments concerning Jewish particularism—which is the inescapable fact that the vast majority of Jews in America have assimilated. I aver that they have “fully assimilated”, which is to say that they have assimilated and acculturated themselves to the point at which their presence in America is rapidly fading. When Jews invoke such terminology to describe ("identify") themselves, demographic irrelevance is an inevitable outcome.
JG concluded his comment by acknowledging an essential truth: "Jews do not recognize the racial categories under which other nations classify peoples." Indeed, we do not. The question is therefore primarily one for non-Jews, some of whom will respect our indifference to those racial categories (and reject the premise of the question), while others will not. A portion of the latter will apply their preferred racial classification of Jews to advance a particular agenda, which imparts information only about themselves, not about Jews.
A more contemporary problem is that large swathes of American Jews view the question as if they were non-Jews, and claim to be white or non-white, or most bafflingly, "Jews of Color". That they do so proves Glenn's point—notwithstanding David Josephson's valid arguments concerning Jewish particularism—which is the inescapable fact that the vast majority of Jews in America have assimilated. I aver that they have “fully assimilated”, which is to say that they have assimilated and acculturated themselves to the point at which their presence in America is rapidly fading. When Jews invoke such terminology to describe ("identify") themselves, demographic irrelevance is an inevitable outcome.