Why does everyone hear use the name Jews or Jewish?
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jew comes from the hebrew word yehudi, which would mean someone from yehudah or judah. however this term is used to refer to the jews as a nation which will rather give up their life than denounce their religion as we see in the book of esther mordechai was called yehudi, being that he was putting his life on the line by not bowing to haman and his idol. so in actuallity jew is more of a proud name than israelite.
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Yeshua used to be a common Jewish name, but I have not known this to be a common thing today.  Jews do not take the names of what they would consider to be a false God, and since Christians worship Yeshua (Jesus), then they do not take that name, and some will not even pronounce it!  They will say "Yoshke" or "Yoshkele" or something like that.\n\nThe rest of those are not Jewish names.  But some may have Hebrew equivalents.  For example, if I'm not mistaken, James = Jacob - Yaakov.  There are PLENTY of Jewish Yaakov's.
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Too many to name, or to even know.  There are Jews all over the earth, from America to China, from Israel to India, from Spain to England.  They are all over the earth.
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its actually a very good question. i'm a religious Jew, and in school (in a class dedicated to the Jewish faith and stuff) we asked the exact same question!!\nthe answer is, it's NOT racist, because we didn't choose ourselves and decided that we're "better than everyone else"- G-d chose us and G-d decided, something which is written many times throughout the Bible/Tanach.\n\nand the first answer here is beyond racist. its purely disgusting and inhuman..... to the dude who wrote it- you're so revolting... its tragic that people like you even exist in this world!!
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It's the problem that people cannot distinguish between the real followers of Moses who are the real jews and the ones who are after power and money and call themselves jews.\n\nThis human brain wants to make everything simple: If a so called christian kills another human being the following day everyones starts to say: " Christians are murderers "!\n\nIt seems easy to blame a group of people and categorize them in groups of good and bad. In that case when we hear of a  guy from a certain race or religion our lazy minds won't have to think and verify if that person is good or bad because there is  a summary of good and bad groups already prepared and "automatic lazy voting" is done in seconds.
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Jewish is a religion, but Jewish is also a race of people. Jewish is the newer word for Hebrew. Jesus is Hebrew/Jewish
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Both, because one could be BOTH Jewish AND German. Most last names thought to be Jewish are actually Eastern European, and forced on the Jews by Christians.
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thats funny. but the truth of the matter is that jews are decended of the Isralites that lived in biblical israel over 2000 years ago and the father of both jews and most arabs is the Abraham of the bible. Both are refered to as semitic peoples. they are from the area but they are two compleatly different peoples.
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For some Jewish traditions you must never write the name of God or say it, as you must never take his name in vain. For other's it can be disrespect as it is their refusal to say God.
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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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jews can say jehovah it's not even his name his name is Yah(Yahweh) the israelites didn't want to say his name, god never told them not to say his name.\n\nPsalm 79:5-6"How long, LORD? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy NAME.\nJeremiah 10:25"Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy NAME:\n\nGod always declare his name "i am the LORD(YHWH) thy God" call on him by another name is forbidden "for he is a jealous God and his Glory shall not be give unto another" or another name. his name is use 6,823 times and yall say he don't like us to use it. If he didn't want us to use it why tell Moses his name to teach to the israelites. Please don't do what the Israelites did, because God curse he, see they gave there land away and nobody knows what happen to the 12 tribes of Israel, do what they did recieve there punishment.
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Moses was said to be the one who God revealed his personal name.YHWH(there was only one) Gods statement in Exodus 3:14 'eyeh 'eyeh (I AM WHO I AM, I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE, I CAUSE TO BE WHAT IS). It is said according to Jewish religions that sometime after the Babylonian Exile the name YHWH proper pronounication was lost and to miss pronounce it defiles the holiness of God. A substitue was used "Adonai" or LORD is now used. In the bible God said "my title for all generations"\n                 The following\nThe LORD, The God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob
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because ISRAEL is the homeland of all jews, and has been jewish land since before arab muslim occupiers came to it. It has been jewish land since before islam ever even exsisted.... Now lets end revisionist history, there was never a country, state, or nation called "palestine" EVER! There is no language, history, culture or people called palestinian. so-called palestinians ARE arabs.. no different in anyway. ARABS were not called "palestinian" until 1963 when egyptian born arafat began to call them that. arabs have 22 nations. jews just one. This is a religious war by islam against the jews of israel. from 48-67 arabs occupied gaza, west bank and 1/2 of jeruslam but a "palestinian" state was never made, even more proof that this has nothing to do with so-called palestinians. There has never been a christian/palestinian sucide bomber.. not one more proof this is a religious war.\nIsrael is just one of 28+ nations under attack by islam currently.
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Of course the question would have more answers if given phonetically.\n\nJudah for example.\nJudith\nJudy\nJuice (notice how the word sounds almost exactly like "Jews"?)\n\nOf course Hebrew never had a "J" sound, so you might want to look at \nYehudah\nYehudim\netc
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Tradition.  The translation from the original Greek to Latin and then to English came up with "Jesus."  Even the newer translations which go back to the oldest preserved texts still seem to use the name, even when the translators know better.\nHow do expect this to change if you have to tell millions of worshipers that they have been mispronouncing the name for centuries?  They will always come up with some lame excuse to explain their own ignorance about the topic.
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I am a Jew and hear people say all sorts of things.\n\nYou will only continue very many diff things, since from the Jews came all other western and even some eastern religions like Bhuddism.\n\nSo lets start with the first Jew. Here it is from the Talmud.\n\nHis name was Abraham, he had an Idea that the world was created by a greater something, he could not name it, so he called it The Name, untill this day Jews call GD 'HaShem', which means 'The Name'.\n\nThe decendants of Abraham formed as 12 tribes. We where made slaves in Egypt for 200 years and as proffesionals and forced labrors built up Egypt. Its a long story and you can read it in the Bible, but eventualy we came to Mount Sinai and received the Torah.\n\nThe Torah was translated into Greek and from there into all other languages, it has been called the Old Testment.\n\nThen came a young Jewish kid who was rejected by his rabbi, who was one of the top ones for the reason of immodesty, so basicly he was a college reject. He didnt mean to, but he created a whole new religion. All he claimed where a few wil things but over 2000 years people distorted it with their imagination to look like it looks now, its called Christianity. Jesus wouldnt know what it was if he where alive today, and from Heaven he looks down and both laughs and cries at it.\n\nMuslims came later, they call GD as Allah which is one of the names GD is called in the Torah. Bhuddism is based on Kabbalah which a feild in Torah Academia.\n\nSo cut it short, we beleive in the Torah. We beleive it is life. The Torah gives 613 commandmants, of all sorts. 248 of them posative are 'Though Shalt...'365 of them are negative commands meaning 'Thou Shalt Not do/be/go/put/etc...'. We believe the Torah speaks to us as the Word of God and is the manual for life. There are 248 bones standing up the human body and 365 muscles, sinews and ligaments, holding them together, moving them etc.\n\nUs Jews consider our Torah not just copywrite, but any non-jew ith motives of breaching the copywrite is forbidden to read it and liable to a death penalty. Christianity and a bloody 2000 years of history in the west was from breaching that copywrite, distorting it, adding stuff, taking out, by mad people.\n\n\nProverbs 3:13-20\n\n13 Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, 14 for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. 16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. 17 Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed. 19 By wisdom the Lord laid the earth's foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; 20 by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew. \n\nWe are like a real family, though all over the place and allways on the move when persecuted, each Jew knows 90% of worldwide Jewish family names, we help each other out.
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Do you mean Hebrews or Israelites, Jews an a Israelites are different. A Jew is anyone who relgion is Judaism, it not a race but a religion. Jew is in the Bible but it's a mistranslation, everytime "Jew" is used in the Bible it should read Judah. Judah is one of the 12 tribes of Israel, so calling ALL Israelites Jews is incorrect. Moses was from the tribe Levi not Judah so that means that he wasn't a Jew, Abraham counldn't a descendant of his own great great grandson so he wasn't a Jew ethier. The name Jew should have never even appear in the English translation.\n\nToday many Jews are white, ask ANY Jew, what does it take to be a Jew. They will tell you to convert to Judaism or if your moms a Jew, then your Jewish.\n\nNONE of them will tell you that to be a Israelites you HAVE to be a decsendant of one of the 12 tribes of Jacob/Israel.\nNote all through out scripture the Bible says that genology is ONLY pass through the FATHER never the mom/wife.\n\nWith that been said Jews are not Israelites and Israelites are not Jews. \n\nTO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION: Todays most Jews are descendants of Ashkenaz and Khazar tribes Both are decsendants of Japhet, Genesis 10 1-5 with are European tribes, which is why todays Jews are white. Until when find some evidences of what Isrealites looked like and can proven they are Israelites, then we would know what color they are.