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on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:46:21 AM
Haaretz had another good but disturbing story that bothered me enough to take to the keyboard. It seems the Chief Rabbinate has prepared a new bill that will close the Law of Return to those who convert to Judaism. Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar wants to cut down on a problem he believes exists: people converting in order to gain Israeli citizenship.
There may indeed be cases of conversion for citizenship (not unlike marriage for citizenship in America), but this isn’t about cutting down on Jewish conversions, it’s about keeping undesirables out of Israel. This may appear to be something small, but an avalanche also starts with a single snowflake. Israel has a problem with racism, and it is growing, judging by the number of stories that keep popping up on the subject in its various forms. …more