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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (6577)	1/7/2005 11:33:28 AM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 22250

Foreigner "Jews"! Most are secular and non-observant "Jews", if Jews at all. Ethiopian Jews Yearn for Entry to Promised Land: Israel nytimes.com "Meles Mandefro is similarly devoted. He is a leader in his Addis Ababa synagogue and speaks some rough Hebrew. His five children have begun studying the language as well, and the eldest son of the family, Fentahun, 17, is a prayer leader. All of them have signed a form that was sent on to the Embassy. "We swear that we believe in the God of Israel and fulfill the commandments of Torah and the Halakha and are willing to carry out the instructions of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel," the pledge says. Mr. Freund said that government officials have raised numerous objections aimed at slowing the arrival of Falash Mura or even stopping the immigration altogether: that they are not really religious but just looking for a better life in Israel, that their numbers will swell beyond current estimates, that the cost is prohibitive. Avraham Poraz, who was the interior minister until November 2004, said on several occasions that he was wary of citizens from poor countries trying to immigrate to Israel. He said he believed they were coming to improve their standard of living, and not necessarily because of strong Jewish roots." If you are educated, with skills and assets to bring to Isra'El, then religious observance is not a problem? len