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Guess Who Else is Jewish?

11/11/2019

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Recently, my son ended up working with a Jew with a shady past who is now doing teshuvah.

This Jewish guy said that he used to sell stuff cheaply to a Yishmaelite crime family who lived in an area controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

The Jewish guy quickly discovered that the Muslim-Arab head of the family was married to an Jewish-Israeli woman. 

They had several children (all Jews, of course, but who looked, talked, and thought of themselves as Muslim Arabs) and who were married to Muslim Arabs.

Unusually, the Arab head of home treated his Jewish wife very well and she was happy in the situation. Her children, both the sons & daughters, also seemed content with their Arab lifestyle & identity.

The Jewish guy said he used to hang out with them until late at night. He said it was just like hanging out with his Jewish Israeli friends. He said he sat in their living room, looking around at the room full of "Arabs" and thinking, "Whoa, almost everyone here is Jewish!"

My son told him he should've told the grown children that they are Jews.

"Yeah, I know that now," said the Jewish guy.

"You can still tell them," said my son.

"No, I can't," he said.

Why?

​One day, the Palestinian Authority descended upon the home with 30 officers and there was all kinds of chaos & fighting, maybe shooting, not sure exactly what. The Jewish guy dashed back into their home & hid there until everyone was gone, then he made his way out and back to the Israeli side.

He never went back.

It's heartbreaking to think of all the children of all the married daughters of the Jewish woman & Muslim man. So many Jews! Yet not a clue to their real identity.

But again, this comes on the heels of Who is a Jew? Disturbing Stories & Inspiring Stories. And How to Prevent Problematic Lineage from Affecting You & Your Descendants?

This also reminds me of an article in Hamodia, which featured a Romanian worker here in Eretz Yisrael who is 100% Jewish.

Yet he came here with all the non-Jewish Romanian workers and no one guesses that he is really Jewish.

On the other hand, there are so many people declaring they're Jewish & even celebrating Jewish holidays, but are not Jewish at all.

I heard that people who work in kiruv at college campuses now say that they've come to realize that the Jewish-looking student named Michael Goldberg or Abigail Schwartz is probably not Jewish at all, but only the child of intermarriage. (Their last name & their look is from their father while their Biblical first name happens to be in fashion this millennium.)

It's getting so that you don't even know who to approach anymore.

We really need Mashiach to come & sort us all out.
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bracha
11/11/2019 17:39:29

This is probably the saddest commentary on the Jewish people of this era. What really is troubling, it doesn't seem to bother many of our people. There is such a mish mosh and that is why we always say that when Moshiach comes (may it be immediately), he will immediately be able to discern who is a Jew and even their tribes, if they're Jewish.
Once when I went to pick up my paycheck, there was a very nice Jewish lady at the reception desk and when I came, she said her son is getting married, so I said 'mazel tov' and she continued on to say but the girl is not Jewish, so I immediately said 'oh, I'm sorry'; really didn't know how to respond. The gist of the story is she said 'but she's such a lovely girl and loves her gefilte fish and chicken soup'. In reality, it is something to cry about, r'l. She took this horrible situation as no big deal, but as a plus because the girl is so nice. These people are so very ignorant of Torah and our laws. They have no idea of the repercussions. Rellgious education starting from a very early age is the answer; there will always be those who stray, but ths problem would never turn out to be an epidemic as it is now.

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Myrtle Rising
11/11/2019 18:43:56

Totally agree with everything you write here, Bracha.

Unfortunately, too many Jews think that Judaism is gefilte fish, chicken soup, bagels 'n' lox, plus some Yiddish slang words (some of which have extremely vulgar meanings unknown to them).

The situation you described with the receptionist is unfortunately all too common.

The Reform & Conservative movements, plus the self-hating Jewish comedians & producers, have so much to do with the extremely superficial attitude toward Judaism.

In another couple of generations, I honestly cannot see an American Jewish population outside of the Orthodox. I know the official projections disagree with that, but with everything I'm watching now, I honestly cannot see it.

Even Eretz Yisrael is no longer the haven from intermarriage it once was. With all the non-Jewish Russians so fluent in Hebrew, familiar with the basics of Judaism, and serving in the IDF, Israeli Jews don't always care about the actual halachic status of their Russian girlfriend who fits into their Jewish lifestyle just fine.

Sad indeed.

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bracha
11/11/2019 23:29:56

Must also agree with you on all you wrote. I just pray that in a few years we wouldn't have to worry about American, European, etc. Jews because we'll all be together in Eretz Yisrael after Moshiach's coming.
Amen!

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Myrtle Rising
11/11/2019 23:39:29

Amen! B'ezrat Hashem!

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