NEITHER! God already decided and spoke in the Torah: A Jew is one that is born of a Jewish MOTHER or one that converts to Judaism according to the Halacha Laws. The struggle mentioned in the article above has to do with who interprets the Halacha Laws and on what grounds. Reforms, Conservative and other semi-Jewish American inventions would like to soften the Laws of Conversions which have been the SAME since the time of Moshe Rabenu (Moses), while the Orthodox establishment in Israel wants to keep them as they are and thus, also keep its monopoly on conversion.
It's more a political-cultural difference rather than a purely religious one.
Who Should Decide Who Is Jewish?
SodaHead News
2010/07/21 15:00:00
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American and Israeli Jews are heading to a confrontation over who should decide who is Jewish in Israel.
A proposed Israeli bill that is supposed to give potential converts more leeway in choosing where - and how - to convert in Israel would also give control over conversions to the Orthodox-dominated Israeli Chief Rabbinate, according to NPR. "Many American Jews belong to the more liberal branches of Judaism — the Reform or Conservative movements. In Israel, the Orthodox are in almost total control of Jewish life."
The bill has caused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to say it could "tear apart" the Jewish people.
"We do not want to see a schism among the Jews of the United States and Israel," Rabbi Daniel Allen, director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, told NPR. "This will say to the Jews of the United States that they don't have a serious place in this country, and that is unacceptable to us...This would be an affirmative act of the Knesset [Israel's parliment] to create a second class of Jewery."
Who should decide who is Jewish?
A proposed Israeli bill that is supposed to give potential converts more leeway in choosing where - and how - to convert in Israel would also give control over conversions to the Orthodox-dominated Israeli Chief Rabbinate, according to NPR. "Many American Jews belong to the more liberal branches of Judaism — the Reform or Conservative movements. In Israel, the Orthodox are in almost total control of Jewish life."
The bill has caused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to say it could "tear apart" the Jewish people.
"We do not want to see a schism among the Jews of the United States and Israel," Rabbi Daniel Allen, director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, told NPR. "This will say to the Jews of the United States that they don't have a serious place in this country, and that is unacceptable to us...This would be an affirmative act of the Knesset [Israel's parliment] to create a second class of Jewery."
Who should decide who is Jewish?
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pinkfloyd65 2010/07/21 17:35:47
Jews come in many different flavors around the world and no country should decide who is a Jew. Each group has something to contribute to the Jewish People so Jews need to stick together, not break apart by group.
Plus, the conversion bill has been put on hold now.
If you are interested. Four videos on everything you want to know about the conversion bill. I don't know how long it will be there.
http://shalomtv.org/index.htm
Saying there is only one way is saying everyone else is condemned. I don't agree with that.
John 3:16-17 says For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
The only way to get to Heaven is through Jesus Christ.
I heard they have even developed race specific epidemics. But of course, those can mutate pretty fast.
there is a difference
Israeli are those born in ISRAELI
TO BE JEWISH .....is dependent on WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND PRACTICE AS A RELIGION....and that could be ANYONE OF ANY RACE, ANY NATIONAL ORIGIN.
A person is a Jew who is born from a Jewish mother. Doesn't matter what they believe.
SHALOME
I would shudder to hear you take on other minorities.
BTW: I think you're confusing Jews with the Borg from Star Trek. Jews are not of one mind, duffus.
Can you be a Jew and lose your humanity?
You're too late. Now too many people know that Christian mercenaries rape women of all ages when they interrogate. Your Christian crusades in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere are just simply a product of your leaders unbridled greed.