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"If you ask the Hebrew Israelites, they would say that brothers and sistas in the West are the original children of Isreal scattered abroad."
That issue is istself highly debatable. The original Israelites probably looked like Arabs (and some Jews still look like Arabs). When the Jews were scattered into other parts of the world such as Europe, they must have interbred with the peoples they found there. Otherwise Jews would not be as diverse in appearance as they are now. Today there are blonde Jews, brunette Jews, white Jews, olive-skinned Jews, brown Jews and black Jews. Judaism is more of a religion than a "race". Although Judaism doesn't usually seek converts, it can (and does) accept them.
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