Teshuvah in the Month of Elul--Is it Possible?!
Am I seeing things? Is it a miracle? Are Mashiach times upon us?? Did the Israeli courts really recognize that a Jew has to profess loyalty to Judaism and live like a Jew, in order to be considered for the Law of Return? As read on Jewish Israel , the Israeli High Court has ruled, according to traditional Judaism, that a Jewish convert to Christianity has to prove that she is committed to the Jewish people before she is allowed to come into Israel. The secular court of Israel apparently outshined the London and Tel Aviv rabbinical courts, which maintained that the woman in question had the status of a Jew (although she had abandoned Judaism). According to the JPost editorial report , the justices noted that “… communities throughout the ages regularly ostracized these people, … suggesting that in modern Israel the refusal to reinstate citizenship was a legitimate response…” to those who have abandoned their Jewish identity. The justices also cited a decision by former ...