Re: Gus. Anyone you know??
Vandals Crash Cars Through Synagogue in Southeastern France
Why don't you clean up your own eugenic backyard in the first place????
cdi.org
Excerpt:
Every wave of immigrants to Israel finds itself resented by some of those who came before, and the latest wave is no exception. Many immigrants complain of being stereotyped as racketeers, prostitutes and alcoholics, and there are frequent reports of brawls between immigrant youths and Jews from older communities.
"Many bad things happening in Israel have been brought by the Russians," grumbled Miki Levi, a 19-year-old seminary student from Jerusalem. "They steal cars. They write anti-Semitic things on synagogues."
The stereotyping suggests to journalist and immigrant Edward Kuznetsov that Israeli society doesn't really understand its newest community.
In 1970 Kuznetsov led 15 other Soviet Jews in an attempt to hijack a plane to Israel. The plot failed, but Kuznetsov finally got here, with "a lot of optimism about Israel, a lot of illusions."
Under the Soviet regime, Jews were persecuted for being Jews, he said. In Israel, as immigrants, they sometimes feel like second-class citizens.
Some of the worst bitterness derives from painful encounters with Israel's tangled relationship between religion and state.
The law says one Jewish grandparent entitles an immigrant to instant citizenship. But the rabbis who control marriage and divorce, manage most cemeteries and wield enormous political clout, have a tougher definition: Only a person with a Jewish mother is Jewish.
Immigrants have occasionally been denied a Jewish burial, even in cases where they died in military service or in terrorist attacks. In 1993, a rabbi refused to pray over the grave of an immigrant killed in a bus bombing. She unlike her husband, wasn't Jewish, and was buried in a non-Jewish section of the cemetery.
There have been feuds between ultra-Orthodox Jews and the immigrant owners of non-kosher butcher shops. The Jewishness of some new arrivals is scrutinized, right down to DNA tests to show they have Jewish relatives.
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