MASA – Keep your JEWISH Identity !

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Have you ever noticed the upset reaction of Jewish Diaspora communities when it comes to Israel telling them something, let alone, criticizing them ? How Diaspora Jews in the US, Britain or Germany immediately feel offended.

I have to admit that in Israel, we have quite a few sarcastic jokes about Jewish living in the Diaspora. Furthermore, we consider them as living abroad because of money and all the convenient things in life. Not many Diaspora Jews want to "bother" living in Israel because, in their eyes, Israelis are a different race. They are rude, the streets are dirty, new immigrants would have to learn a new language and get used to a different mentality. So, why bother when they make enough money in the countries where they were born instead of running after a Zionist ideology ? The only thing bothering are "those Israelis" starting to remind the Diaspora of Judaism or identity.

The best example is MASA, an Israeli joint venture run by the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency in order to strengthen the Jewish identity of Diaspora Jews. Masa even dared showing some commercials and speaking out loud against intermarriage. This made some Jews living in the Diaspora very upset, as, so far, they haven't felt too much criticized by their own communities. Not by the Reform movement. Just the opposite. The Reform movement considers children from mixed marriage (where the mother is not Jewish) as Jewish. Those children are being encouraged to go to the Synagogues.

Today, the amount of mixed marriages in the United States and England is enormous and sometimes I wonder, how many real Jews are left. 50 % or something in the USA. How can the Jews get married to a Gentile ? Do they just go according to love ? Giving up their identity and future generations for a skirt ? And if they do, they immediately start looking for excuses:

"Well, I couldn't find a proper Jewish girl / guy !", etc.

As soon as someone criticizes them, they feel offended by extremists or the stupid Orthodox. Let alone now by the Israeli government or the Jewish agency. In case such couples decided making Aliyah, let alone their non – Jewish children, we Israelis are facing a burden. The burden of having all these non – Jews in our country. People who don't even belong here; due to the stupidity of some Diaspora Jews who couldn't keep their pants up.
The fact is that children from a mixed marriage where the mother is not – Jewish are also not Jewish. In Germany, the Reform movement invented the expression "Father Jews", meaning those children are Jewish due to their Jewish father. However, according to Halacha, there are no father Jews, mother Jews, mother – in – law – Jews ! There are Jews according to the Halacha and this is it. You cannot just rewrite Jewish law the way you want it and the way it pleases you !

If a Jewish man marries a Gentile woman, Jewish future generations from the male Jewish spouse are lost and the children will, sooner or later, vanish in the Gentile (or Christian) world. The only ones saving Judaism from its downfall are Orthodox Jews, in particular Haredim.

Where are the children of the first Reformers ?
They intermarried and the next generation disappeared in the church.

Now Masa is talking about Jewish identity and Diaspora Jews are protesting in order to justify their "convenient" life. But how about all the children from mixed marriages having trouble finding their own identity ? Parents usually don't think about that but rather about themselves !

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