Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father was a Polish Jew, explains the ministry, her mother was a German Protestant-and according to the Halacha (religious law), a Jew is someone whose mother was Jewish, or a convert to the faith. The ministry demands that she turn in her passport pending the investigation of her citizenship. She has the choice of converting formally to Judaism or becoming a naturalized citizen of Israel...
...Jews as their price for remaining in the coalition with the governing Mapai. In 1960 the Interior Ministry, dominated by Orthodox Jews, ru'ed that the Halacha would determine whether an immigrant could enter Israel under the 1950 Law of Return, which makes any Jew automatically eligible for citizenship...
...ministry's ruling is clearly at variance with the views of Israel's Supreme Court. Three years ago, in ruling against Carmelite Father Daniel, a Catholic convert who applied for citizenship under the Law of Return on grounds of his Jewish birth, the court declared that a Jew is basically anyone the man in the street would consider Jewish. Although Rina qualifies under this rule of thumb, the ministry refuses to back down...
President Johnson must not use this tactic. Rather, he should encourage Negroes to demonstrate, march and organize--in short, to continue fighting for their rights until they win full citizenship in American society. But their battle must be his too. Only when he adds his broad power to their efforts will...
Swathed in furs she viewed the Bay of Angels in wintry Nice. And for Sophia Loren, 30, her dark glasses must have seemed rose-colored, because Producer Carlo Ponti, 52, has been granted French citizenship, and has carte blanche in France to marry her. He wed her before, but was forced to annul the marriage when their native Italy threatened bigamy proceedings; it does not recognize his 1957 Mexican divorce from his first wife. Carlo and Sophia celebrated with a tricolored cake, and Ponti displayed Gallic finesse when asked if they would remarry. "It is not excluded," said...