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Indian Jews. Last week Indian-born Avshalom Dhatavkar, 24, and pretty Shula Elmalen, 21, went to a lawyer to start suit against Israel's rabbinate for not allowing them to marry. The impediment: Avshalom was born into the Bene Israel sect, which has some 15,000 members in India and 7,000 in Israel. Reputedly in India for 2,000 years, the Bene Israelis were long cut off from communication with the mainstream of Judaism, and purists maintain that they developed rules of marriage and divorce that were not in accordance with religious law-hence many of them must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who's a Jew? | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

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