Jew-ish | Jew curious? Questions and answers for the Jews, non-Jews, and all the Jew-curious out there

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What is being "Jewish"? What are Jews? What do Jews believe? What do Jews (really) do? What's happening in those mysterious synagogues with all that weird language (it's Hebrew)? Jew curious? The thing about being Jewish is, you can't tell us apart by looking (well, not always), we often look the same, dress the same, work and play and eat right alongside our non-Jewish counterparts, and yet, as a teeny tiny minority--only 0.2% of the global population, and 2-3% of the U.S. population--plenty of people have probably never met a Jewish person, or if they did, they didn't even know it. For as much as we share (and it's probably way more than you think), somehow, moving through the world as a Jew really is different. Everything looks different through a Jewish lens, even for those who aren't particularly religious, the ones who describe themselves as "Jew- ish." But honestly, none of this is really that mysterious. And, if you're curious or confused, you can always just ask the interne