A proposed change to Israel's immigration law could strip millions of Jews around the world of their right to Israeli citizenship, alarming many in the Jewish diaspora.
. Some of those looking to Israel for refuge may no longer be welcome if Maoz gets his way.
The rift between American Jews and Israel has been widening for a long time, according to Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents the largest denomination of Judaism in the United States but is considered illegitimate by the Orthodox rabbinate in Israel.“The disconnect is profound,” Jacobs said. “Zionism was never meant to be the project of the ultra-Orthodox, and the redefinition of who is a Jew is not an Israeli prerogative.
“American Jews are standing up in their social circles, work places, social media, to lobby for the support of Israel; they meet with their congresspeople, their senators to talk in articulate, clear voices about why Israel’s security matters,” Jacobs said. “Israel is part of who we are as diaspora Jews.”with NBC that, on the immigration law, he had experience implementing “creative solutions to these kinds of impasses.
Progressive Israeli activists are preparing for battle, enlisting funds and support from Jewish allies across the world, said Anat Hoffman, co-founder of the feminist prayer group Women of the Wall, which for decades has protested the ultra-Orthodox control of theWomen are forbidden from reading from the Torah, and they are relegated to a separate section. When the Women of the Wall visit, its members have been spat on, cursed, and, at times, targeted with dirty diapers.
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