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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Fred Mertz)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Ethiopian Jews - " racist Ultra-Orthodox"
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 18:52:49 EST
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> The "racist Ultra-Orthodox" people mentioned in Bill's article are
> just trying to save the Israeli society from a disaster. If the
> Ethiopian Jews don't undergo a "token" giyur then their children
> would be considered possible mamzarim by jewish law (like it or not).
> It may be "racist" but jews don't marry into a people whose origin
> is not known hallachically to be Jewish and pure. To save Israel
> we ask the Ethiopian Jews to swallow their pride for a minute and
> conform with this technicality.   [Asher Schechter]

On the other hand, how do the Ethiopian Jews know that those Jews in
Israel are "halachically" "pure"?  Perhaps the pride-swallowing should
be in the other throat.
-- 
"Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?  I dunno."
				Rich Rosen 	{ihnp4 | harpo}!pyuxd!rlr