Jewish culture is the diverse international
culture of the
Jews. Since the formation of the Jewish nation in biblical times the
international community of
Jewish people has been considered a tribe or an
ethnoreligious group rather than solely a religion.
Judaism guides its adherents in both practice and belief, so that it has been called not only a
religion, but an
orthopraxy. Not all individuals or all cultural phenomena can be classified as either "secular" or "religious", a distinction native to
Enlightenment thinking.