My mom is Jewish, genetically speaking (she doesn’t practice) so I wouldn’t say I can chime in from lived experience, per se, but it is a part of who I am. Because Judaism isn’t just a faith tradition, it’s also honestly a classification based on phenotype (again, Rivka please correct me if I’m wrong) it’s like the intersection of both religious beliefs and phenotype working against Jewish women in favor of white women and men. To me it seems like other forms of intersectionality, where multiple forms of oppression are working at the same time, which is more than just the religious tradition alone.

My 23andMe says I’m 20% Ashkenazi and that directly links to a region of Ukraine. It’s really specific. Whereas you can be Christian and it’s not going to pop up on there. My south Asian ancestry shows up, of course, but it’s just that. My ethnicity in that regard is Tamil, but again that’s not tied to a religion. If that makes sense.