On Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 02:53:45 a.m. CDT, V M <[email protected]> wrote:
https://scroll.in/article/999497/reading-the-complex-reality-of-indias-jewish-communities-tiny-but-still-expanding In her aching, confessional *Book of Esther*, the author Esther David (her original family name was Dandekar) describes attempting to “make aliyah” via the Law of Return, which gives Jewish people from any part of the world the right to migrate to Israel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darn VM! You waltzed through a minefield with ease. Congrats! The pictures in the article are invaluable as they show people with typical Indian features i.e. people who have been thoroughly assimilated over the decades. In Tanzania, we have the Shirazi people who claim they are descendants of settlers from Shiraz, Iran. The Shirazi look exactly like their neighbours and rightly claim that they do not have to prove that they are Shirazi because all the neighbours know who is Shirazi and who is not. Thankfully, the Shirazi have no desire to "return" to Shiraz. Using the Bible as a title deed is about the best idea I have come across. Zionism could have been a great concept but once you decide to use arms to get rid of the local population, you essentially are trading living in peace in another land to living in a state of perpetual war in God's chosen land. Mervyn
