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"Are Jews a Race Under U.S. Law?

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A new article of mine in Tablet magazine, which begins:

Is being Jewish a race? A national origin? An ethnicity? A religion? All four?

The answer is: It's complicated.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.