Jew weighing in here brought in by Baseball Bugs Judaism is not a race it can be considered an ethnicity My race is Caucasian As far as what to make of Elvis Jewish ancestry which I was not aware of until Bugs brought it up to me I m not sure how much to make of it To me religion is mostly about how you identify not this silly rule about which parent passes it down IIRC Catholicism or is it Christianity as a whole passes it down through the paternal line so a kid with a Jewish mother and Christian or Catholic father is kinda stuck there in terms of which wins out by that argument