But as perplexing, unique, and even discomfiting as it may be, the Jew is a member of both the Jewish people and the Jewishreligion, and this has been so since the beginning of Jewish history.
Everyone understands that while Jews have a perfect right to change their religion, they have no right to force the Jewish community to accept Christians as Jews.
Yet both end up grappling with the conundrum of Jewish survival in America, and conclude, with some justice, that only religion can preserve Jews as a distinct people.