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Racial purity is alive and kicking I see , but one must be polite in criticising to not over step that red line ..
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Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, who spent seven years in prison for fraud and then resumed the same government position soon after his release, pandered to his Haredi base by contending that, "This is not the right thing to do.… The pain of assimilation around the world is destroying the Jewish nation." Oren Hazan, a Likud backbencher who denies allegations he smoked crystal meth and hired prostitutes for clients while running a casino in Bulgaria, suggested that Halevi had been "Islamized," before offering these words of wisdom: "I don't blame Lucy Aharish for seducing a Jewish soul. She didn't have the goal of harming our nation and preventing future Jewish children," he wrote on social media.
Moreover, inter-marriage in Israel is not a significant phenomenon, its rate technically being zero. That is because Deri and his ilk—the majority of whom do not serve in the military while benefitting from disproportionate levels of state funding for their yeshivas; and a large portion of whom reject outright Israel's right to exist—maintain a monopoly over virtually all religious ceremonies and practices in the country and would never sanction the marriage of a Jew and non-Jew.
Therefore, the estimated 5-10 percent of all marriages in Israel that are civil mixed-faith unions are not officially recognized. This applies to tens of thousands of Russians that emigrated from the former Soviet Union whose religious status remains in limbo due to the Chief Rabbinate's refusal to certify their Jewishness or to ease restrictions on the conversion process, over which the ultra-Orthodox maintain a stranglehold |
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