[lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already!

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 07:52:45 PST 2010


On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:11 AM, James Heartfield < Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

There is a small controversy on these grounds in England right now, where
> the religious overseers of the Jewish schools (state-funded, Jewish run)
> here are not admitting children whose mothers are converts, because they
> insist that Jewishness is by matrilineal descent. To make the point the
> Chief Rabbi explained that those orn of Jewish mothers were entitled to
> attend, even if they rejected the Jewish faith, and those who were not were
> not welcome even if they embraced it. He meant, in effect, that Jewishness
> was not "a faith". Naturally (if that's the right word) parents among the
> Reform Jews are outraged at the decision, and it will probably cause
> problems with the funding authorities (which are secular).
>

It already has, at least in the case of one prominent school:

"An 'outstanding' Jewish secondary school, which rejected a boy whose mother had converted to Judaism,<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0e35cc76-c362-11de-8eca-00144feab49a.html>used criteria that breached race discrimination laws, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2b8d97c-ea7d-11de-a9f5-00144feab49a.html

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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