<p>I think it's silly to say that Jews are only a religious not also an ethnic group. I'm a Russian immigrant Jew with a German last name and although I always check the "white" box, I am hardly so. Traditionally Jews marry other Jews, in effect creating almost a different race entirely. I'm one guilty of assuming people are Jews by their last names or the way they look. I don't think it is a big deal.</p>
<p>Do you feel yourself an American first, or a Jew first? If this country turned (or became much more) anti-Semitic, would you leave?</p>
<p>I consider myself an American first. Being a Jew is more an ancestral thing to me than my identity. If this country turned anti-Semitic, yes I would leave, likely to Israel.</p>