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Subject: Israeli basketball players
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 12:58:50 EDT
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I believe the Sports Illustrated article to be somewhat misleading.
The problem is not the rapidity of the conversions, but the legality
of them.

I have been following this controversy quite closely, since I have
always been a devoted fan of the exploits of Aulsi Perry and the rest
of the black Americans on the Israeli basketball teams.  This issue   
is simply a tragedy since they have married Jewish women and have
had children in Israel, and view Israel as their home.

The problem is that, in one case, $10,000 changed hands in order to
file a phoney conversion certificate in the Rabbanut in Jerusalem.
Similar phoney conversions were also undertaken by other rabbis.  

I put the blame for this unfortunate incident on those hypocritcal
rabbis that feign orthodoxy, and then sell the soul of the Jewish
people for money.  This is the problem in calling for religious rule
in the state:  one is simply exchanging one corrupt system for another.
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bill peter                                 ihnp4!lanl!wkp