I am sorry
for those of you who think that you are clever, but while becoming an
atheist does not cut you off from being Jewish according to the Rabbis,
becoming a Christian does, and Disraeli was a Christian.
Even ethnic Jews baptised in infancy, never mind practising Christians as Disraeli was, are denied citizenship of the secular State of Israel as Returned Jews.
Even ethnic Jews baptised in infancy, never mind practising Christians as Disraeli was, are denied citizenship of the secular State of Israel as Returned Jews.
Therefore, at
least from a Jewish point of view, any Jewish point of view from Rabbinism to old-school Zionism, Ed Miliband is indeed going to be Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister.
Fair enough. But should we only accept theological Jewish definitions of Jewishness? I don't accept personally that the child of a Jewish father and gentile mother is any less Jewish than that of the opposite parentage.
ReplyDeleteReform Jews would agree with you, at least in Britain.
ReplyDeleteBut they would still tell you that you could not be a Christian Jew. An atheist Jew, yes. But not a Christian Jew.
The Israeli Law of Return was written by and for militantly atheist Jews.
Applications under it are refused from people baptised in infancy who have had no subsequent involvement in Christianity.
That's the line, and they are free to set it. They do, and they stick to it.
David, you are still spouting untruths.
ReplyDeleteBorn a Jew, die a Jew, it doesn't matter what happens in between.
The Right of Return requires solely proof of your maternal bloodline, nothing else.
Please, for the sake of enough rumour about Judaism infecting the internet already stick to the truth on this one.