Israel in uproar after chief rabbi calls ex-Soviet Jews 'religion-hating' communists
Between 1989 and the mid-2000s, as the Soviet Union unraveled and fell into ongoing turbulence, about 1.5 million Jews made their way across newly opened borders and fled.
Israel’s Law of Return, in place since its founding in 1948, confers the right to citizenship to any Jew. And, in an echo of the Nazi decree subjecting any grandchild of a single Jew to racial laws and eventual death, the Israeli law guarantees citizenship, and safe haven, to any grandchild of a Jew — even one with little connection organized Judaism.
“Hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of goys came to Israel under the Law of Return,” he protested at a rabbinical gathering last week in Jerusalem.Yosef, one of two Israeli chief rabbis who are public officials working for the Ministry of Religious Affairs, told the audience: “There are many, many non-Jews here, some of them communists, hostile to religion, haters of religion. They are not Jews at all — goys.
In the last year, that leverage has shifted to Jewish Home, the secular, right-wing party founded by Avigdor Lieberman, a former defense minister, who has successfully parlayed Israelis’ growing exasperation with the power of religious authorities to become Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most tenacious nemesis, and Israel’s most consequential political leader.
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