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Are Jews white? The answer changes everything.

JL;DR SUMMARY Michael Inzlicht explores the complex question of whether Jews are considered white, a classification that varies widely depending on historical, cultural, and geographical contexts. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish IdentitySocial JusticeAshkenazi JewsMizrahi JewsOppressionPrivilegeWhite PrivilegeRaceRacial Categorization

Places mentioned

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"This is a guest essay written by Michael Inzlicht, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto."
Israel
"In Israel, Yemenis were the swarthiest Jews around until the arrival of Ethiopian Jews in the mid-1980s."
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
"This question was raised in a very interesting symposium I attended in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology."
Canada
"In 2023, police in Canada reported 900 hate crimes targeting Jews."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
"Nor did a gunmen go into an Irish Catholic church in Pittsburgh to shoot and kill 11 congregants."
Brazil
"North Americans see her as white, but as soon as they learn shes from Brazil, not so much."

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