Re: Anti-Semitism

[Dan Minette]

>The rule in Judaism is that if your mother is Jewish you are Jewish; if your mother is not you >are not a jew. Therefore everyone with a jewish mother has the right of return. If you convert to >Judaism and this conversion is recognized by the Orthodox Jewish hiearchy in Israel you are a >Jew and have the right to return. If you convert to Conservative or Reform Judaism your conversion >will not be recognized by the Orthodox Rabinate in Israel (or the US) and they will not consider >you a Jew.   I read an interesting article that the Israelie Supreme Court has just ruled that converted Conservative or Reformed Jews must be accepted. I also read in the same article that earlier, less forceful, rulings have been ignored by the government.   Dan M.