Anti Isreal = Anti-Semetism?

[James Farmelant]

One of the curious aspects of the Law of Return is that a professed
atheist who is the child of a Jewish mother will qualify as a Jew, and
hence be eligible for immediate Israeli citizenship.  For someone not
of Jewish origin to be recognized as a Jew under Israeli law he or she
must convert to Orthodox Judaism.  Conversions performed by Reform
or Conservative rabbis are not recognized under Israeli law.  Thus
the Law of Return combines racial/ethnic discrimination with religious
discrimination.

		Jim Farmelant

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:00:50 -0600 (CST) jf noonan <jfn1 at msc.com> writes:
>On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>> One interesting thing about Israel is that its Law of Return is that 
>it
>> theoretically allows anyone in the world to migrate to Israel if 
>they
>> convert to Judaism.  
>
>Yes, but who gets to decide what a "conversion" is?  Currently it is
>the foaming-at-the-mouth ultra right wing rabbis that do (Israel's
>equivalents of Pat Robertson and Bob Barr).  Interesting that you
>would mention this when, just now, the issue is in play.
>
>
>--
>
>Joseph Noonan
>jfn1 at msc.com	
>
>

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