-Caveat Lector- It is only a matter of time before Israel's religious test for immigrants will be found to violate International Human Rights. No country will be permitted to require a religious, ethnic, language test for citizenship. No Theocracies, no monoethnics, no exclusive cultural identity will be permitted. Whether you consider this a good or bad thing is irrelevant. The globalist demand for "multi culturalism" and "inclusion" will have interesting and profound effects throughout the world. I suspect that globalist homogenization is quite an effective control mechanism. One world...one government...one Elite. flw WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 2001 Israeli lawyers to challenge 'Jewish test' for immigrants FROM SAM KILEY IN JERUSALEM Quote: "Many recruits to the Israeli army, some estimates say up to 20 per cent, now take their oath of allegiance with a hand on the New Testament" ISRAELI human rights groups are to challenge the Jewish Orthodox establishment in the courts after immigrants complained that the Rabbinical Court had introduced tests to establish whether they were truly Jewish. New Family, a group of 25 Israeli human rights lawyers, have promised a wave of court actions after an immigrant from the former Soviet Union was refused permission to marry because he failed an investigation into his background by the Rabbinical Court. The frustrated groom's father and grandmother were Jewish, his lawyer said, and he had been circumcised in the traditional Jewish manner on the eighth day after his birth. But he had been found wanting by Israel's rabbis. "This is a grotesque new ruling from the rabbinate, that every new immigrant has to prove his Judaism if he or she arrived after 1990," said Irit Rosenblum of New Family. "This is the worst form of ugly discrimination." The only marriages recognised by the Jewish State are those conducted by Sephardi and Ashkenazi Orthodox rabbis. But the Orthodox, and even Jewish, hold over Israeli life has come under pressure from immigrants who have been persuaded to come to Israel to offset the "demographic time bomb" of rapid population growth among Arabs. More than 40 per cent of the one million new arrivals over the last decade, mostly from the former Soviet Union, are not Jews, according to government officials. Many of the others, having hidden their faith during decades of religious persecution, would struggle to make their way through the Orthodox liturgy. One of the teenage victims of the last suicide bombing in Tel Aviv was buried in a Christian cemetery. Another, whose Judaism was in doubt, qualified for burial only on the edge of a Jewish area. Many recruits to the Israeli army, some estimates say up to 20 per cent, now take their oath of allegiance with a hand on the New Testament. Eliahu Ben Dahan, director-general of the Rabbinical Court, said yesterday that of the 30,000 marriages conducted each year almost a sixth come under investigation by his officers. "We check their documents, we ask for character witnesses and for people who know them from Russia, but as far as our own Halacha law goes many of them simply are not Jewish." Under the secular Law of Return anyone with a Jewish grandparent can move to Israel. Religious law defines a Jew as someone descended from a Jewish mother, or who is active in observing Jewish beliefs and traditions. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
