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JJ
May 21, 2013, 12:16:20 PM5/21/13
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WHEN is a Jew not a Jew? When he's a Karaite. Or so says Israel's chief
rabbinate, which, after 65 years of relative harmony with an ancient Jewish
sect, is reopening an old and bitter schism. In recent months, rabbis
working for Israel's ministry of religion have deemed Karaite marriages
invalid, fined their butchers for claiming to be kosher, and demanded that
Karaites marrying Orthodox Jewish women should convert, sometimes having to
undergo tavila, or baptism. "We are already Jews," protests Moshe Firrouz, a
computer engineer who heads the Karaites' Council of Sages. "The rabbinate
is denying us our religious freedom."
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21578098-old-religious-argument-once-again-rears-its-angry-head-whos-jew?utm_source=Newsletter+subscribers&utm_campaign=fc13f9404c-JTA_Daily_Briefing_5_21_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2dce5bc6f8-fc13f9404c-25355077
Jay
rabbinate, which, after 65 years of relative harmony with an ancient Jewish
sect, is reopening an old and bitter schism. In recent months, rabbis
working for Israel's ministry of religion have deemed Karaite marriages
invalid, fined their butchers for claiming to be kosher, and demanded that
Karaites marrying Orthodox Jewish women should convert, sometimes having to
undergo tavila, or baptism. "We are already Jews," protests Moshe Firrouz, a
computer engineer who heads the Karaites' Council of Sages. "The rabbinate
is denying us our religious freedom."
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21578098-old-religious-argument-once-again-rears-its-angry-head-whos-jew?utm_source=Newsletter+subscribers&utm_campaign=fc13f9404c-JTA_Daily_Briefing_5_21_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2dce5bc6f8-fc13f9404c-25355077
Jay
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