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The trials of David Ben Moshe
Steven Davidson, Tablet Magazine
Published: 03.12.18, 18:49
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1. No Jewish Mother, Black, Criminal Record, means he will fail
Steve Benassi ,   Plymouth, MN USA   (12.03.18)
... in his efforts to become "Jewish" and a citizen of Israel.

The "Rabbinical Holocaust" has kept the number of "Jews" to less than 15 million today.

wiki/Matrilineality_in_Judaism
2. MOSHE
Marc ,   New York   (12.03.18)
Padres is as Orthodox as the pope is a mufti
3. takes one to know one
Dov   (12.04.18)
The irony is the man deciding, Arye Deri is himself an ex-con who is facing new criminal charges.
4. give him citizenship
David ,   boston   (12.04.18)
I don't get it. so he isn't perfect. who is? from this article I read sincerity, trshivah, and validation.
5. DO NOT GIVE UP!
Mordechai ,   san francisco, ca   (12.04.18)
Israel is a wonderful country, but this is its ugly side. It is not so much about racism and more about how Israelis treat each other. Nothing more. I am Jewish. No conversion issues in my family since the Inquisition (a non-issue for Israel). I saw Jews from the Diaspora mistreated in the IDF and in Israel simply for being different. Officers did not care. I was not the worst one off either. This is a problem with Israeli society, nothing more. Blacks are accepted in Israel, but there is a minority of Israelis (and it could be sizeable) that simply are jerks and sadistic to anyone else whom they do not like, period and end of story. Just do not give up.
6. THIS IS WHY I DONT TRUST HIM
DACON9   (12.04.18)
HE SAID: With Christianity, I don’t like the idea of having a universal truth,” he told Tablet. “It seems there are multiple ways to have truth, and you shouldn’t force other people to agree with you. When I found Judaism, I saw it wasn’t like that, and as I read more and more, I realized this made sense for me.”

SO NOW HE DOESNT HAVE THE BASICS LIVING EVEN ONE DAY AS A JEW AND HE DECIDES WHAT MAKES SENSE TO HIM.....JUST ANOTHER NUT FOR THE DAY AND AN IDIOT GIRL LOST IN THE DUST...
7. I WILL GIVE. HIM MY ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP ANY TIME ANY DAY
oleg ,   Florida   (12.04.18)
ISRAEL HAS A THIRD WORLD GOVT. SYSTEM.TO GET THINGS DONE YOU MUST PAY OFF A CLERK OR AN OFFICIAL.
8. The Interior Minister is not so kosher.
Rich ,   Toronto   (12.04.18)
Aryeh Deri, Israel‘s Interior Minister, has a criminal past and financially is a danger to the public welfare, He is now being charged with fraud and breach of trust. But yet, this criminal is in the government denying a sincere convert Jew of his right to become a citizen of Israel. How sick is that?
9. With "Proof of Judiasm" letter Israel has closed itself off
(12.04.18)
The letter must be from a Rabbi from a major denomination who actually knows you and has real knowledge of your being Jewish, with this requirement most of Israel would not qualify to live in their own country.
10. I am a Gher, married with an Israeli and an Israeli citizen
Yoni ,   Kfar Saba   (12.05.18)
With two Israeli and Jewish kids and I have been waiting 5 years before I have received my citizenship by misrad apnim so I don't see the issue here. I forgot to say that I am a white caucasian European man. This guy has been waiting only few months and he is already complaining...
11. He’s worth more to our people then a lot of “religious”
Leeann Rosen ,   Tel-Aviv   (12.05.18)
Seriously, if only more Jews looked like him
And less represented by uneducated uncivilized religious from bnei brak.
12. a shanda!
juan ,   bethesda   (12.10.18)
what a shanda. a criminal interior minister must now decide if someone who also has an arrest can be a citizen, while he himself is a MINISTER in the govt. shanda.
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