Verdine,
I read Arthur Koestler some years ago! I agree with him 100%. Khazaria is where majority of Russian Jews come from. These are not Semites like me! Otherwise how do we explain these 10 million Slaves that practice Judism! Where they come from?
Mr. koestler was discredit by certain circles in Israel that needed badly the immigrant Russian Jews and needed to convince the world that these are Jews! For me they are like Flasha, a mystery!!
We are Safardim of the Western Europe.(I am sure a man of culture like you know what I mean! ) After 600 years in exile from our home in Toledo, we still speak Ladino, and stick to our rites. Ashkanzim and Chasidim are our brothers, we are equally governed by the same God, same dietery laws, and we shared the same destiney in the camps! But these Russian Jews in Isreal are not our people! Majority are not Jews, and they don't claim to be. They used the lax laws in Israel to immigrate there and benefit from what the State of Israel can offer! The first chance they have, they ran away to the US!
RGDS
Yaacov |