| In a religious sense, the
term refers to followers of
Judaism. In an ethnic sense, it refers to
the people, or "nation", that traces its ancestry from the Biblical
patriarch Abraham through his son Isaac and in particular Jacob, Isaac's
son, as well as to those who subsequently joined them over the course of
history as "converts". Ethnic Jews include both "Observant Jews",
meaning those who practice the Biblical and Rabbinic laws, known as the
Mitzvot,
and those who, while not practicing
Judaism as a religion, still identify
themselves as Jews in a cultural or ethnic sense. |
The six-pointed Star of David
[also see Jewish Jewelry] |
