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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (10106)	12/19/2001 4:53:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Follow-up to Russia's ideological Anschluss over Israel.... December 19, 2001 Influx of Russians transforms Israel By Jason Keyser ASSOCIATED PRESS washtimes.com Excerpt: In 1970, Mr. Kuznetsov led 15 other Soviet Jews in an attempt to hijack a plane to Israel. The plot failed, but Mr. Kuznetsov finally arrived here, with "a lot of optimism about Israel, a lot of illusions." Under the Soviet regime, Jews were persecuted for their religion, 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 occasionally have been denied Jewish burial, even in cases where they have died in military service or in terrorist attacks. ________________