After being told she needed to prove the Jewishness of her maternal lineage for four generations, Hillary Rubin is questioning her decision to move to Israel.
But after filing for a wedding license and being told she needed to prove the Jewishness of her maternal lineage for four generations, she is wondering whether she made the right decision in immigrating to a Jewish state that doubts her Jewishness.
"I'm furious with this country right now," the 29-year-old international relations student told Anglo File this week. "I'm the great-great-niece of a prominent Zionist and I am always a supporter of this country, but this really frustrated me and I can totally understand why a lot of my Anglo friends left this country."
There is no civil marriage in Israel, forcing couples to either go through a local Rabbinate or marry abroad. The Chief Rabbinate recently enacted new guidelines automatically sending marriage candidates whose parents did not wed in Israel to a local rabbinical court to determine whether they are really Jewish.
TVNL Comment: So Isreal is a democracy. According to the media mantra it is the only one in the middle east (just pretent Turkey does not exist.) Well, how is this for democracy? Friends...this is called a theocracy. As they claim...Israel is a Jewish state. Identifying a nation by religion and having laws based on religion make this nation a theocracy...not a democracy. Let's start saying that evrey time someone claims Israel is a democracy.
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