{"id":41673,"date":"2015-07-07T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41673"},"modified":"2015-07-07T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:30:46","slug":"reclaiming-jewish-identity-an-aboriginal-people-of-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41673","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming Jewish Identity: An Aboriginal People of the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/binyamin-arazi\/reclaiming-jewish-identit_b_7715528.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reclaiming Jewish Identity: An Aboriginal People of the Middle East<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2015-06-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Binyamin Arazi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starting this September, after decades of lobbying efforts by Arab-American organizations, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/jewish-world\/jewish-world-features\/.premium-1.661491?utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook\" target=\"_blank\">United States Census Bureau will begin testing a new category<\/a> for Americans of Middle Eastern and North African origin. In conjunction with this new listing, no less than 19 subcategories will be made available, including &#8216;Israel.&#8217; So where does this leave Jewish Americans? Should diaspora Jews follow the example of their Israeli co-ethnics and mark &#8220;Middle Eastern\/North African,&#8221; or should they take the easy way out and mark &#8220;Other&#8221; or even &#8220;White,&#8221; as most Middle Eastern and North African Americans have done up to this point? Should there be a separate &#8220;Jewish&#8221; category?<\/p>\n<p>These questions are likely to confuse many readers, particularly those who are more inclined to perceive &#8220;Jewishness&#8221; as a religious identity rather than an ethnic one. Nevertheless, contrary to the widespread belief that we merely constitute a religious faith, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Hebrew\" target=\"_blank\">Jewish people are an ethnic group\/tribe of Southwest Asian origin<\/a>, and one of the oldest extant native peoples of the region&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/binyamin-arazi\/reclaiming-jewish-identit_b_7715528.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reclaiming Jewish Identity: An Aboriginal People of the Middle East The Huffington Post 2015-06-07 Binyamin Arazi Starting this September, after decades of lobbying efforts by Arab-American organizations, the United States Census Bureau will begin testing a new category for Americans of Middle Eastern and North African origin. In conjunction with this new listing, no less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[20382,10108,2425],"class_list":["post-41673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-binyamin-arazi","tag-huffington-post","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}