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When is a Jew not a Jew? When he is in Israel, if he belongs to a sect of which the Chief Rabbi disapproves. And being considered a non-Jew in Israel can be awkward, especially if one falls in love. Mixed marriages are illegal-no rabbi may marry a Jew to a non-Jew-and civil marriage (and divorce) does not exist. The result is a storm of resentment between Israel's secular and religious Jews, which is currently whistling around the ears of silver-thatched Acting Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim...
...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...
...good enough to fight as a parachutist in the army, and to be working now on a high-priority project for the Defense Ministry," says Avshalom furiously. He refused to answer his last call-up for military service, told his commanding officer: "If I am not a Jew, you have no right to call me to serve.'' Said Shula last week: "If we don't succeed in our suit, we'll go to the missionaries and ask to be converted to Christianity, and the church will marry us. We can't afford...
Rabbi Nissim's opponents feel that there is more than Orthodox scrupulosity behind his strictness to the Bene Israelis; they point out that Nissim is an Iraqi Jew and is prejudiced in favor of a group of rich, well-educated Iraqis who migrated to India during the 19th century, led by the famed Sassoon family, and fomented the bitter resentment of the Bene Israelis by trying to change their ways...
...Stark out of the line of succession should the mayor resign for a federal appointment. Cried Brooklyn Boss Joseph T. Sharkey, white-faced with anger: "I think the Jewish people in this town might feel they were trying to get rid of Abe and make it impossible for a Jew to become mayor...