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Who is a Jew? And who is eligible for the Law of Return? (*Hint: the answers are not necessarily the same)
Shortly after Israel’s new government was elected, and long before judicial reform took up all the oxygen in the proverbial room, the coalition announced plans to emend Israel’s famous Law of Return (one of the earliest laws the country ever passed) and to get rid of the “grandparent clause.”
The “grandparent clause” allows one to make aliyah to Israel as a Jew even if only one of one’s grandparents was Jewish. Of course, according to Jewish law, having a Jewish maternal grandmother would make you halakhically Jewish; but none of the other three would.
So why would the Law of Return be so…
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