cs193bah@unm-la.UUCP (02/08/85)
[*Sigh*] In a response to Samuel Saal's article "Ethiopian Jews, Racist Ultra- Orthodox, and Who is a Rabbi?", Yuval Tamir responds: >The letter is based on a false assumption. >Modern Israel was not established as a "Jewish State", it was >established as a "state for the Jews". >This will (hopefully) keep Israel from becoming another Iran . . . The analogy between Israel and Iran is a poor one. Many Iranians who choose not to follow the Sharia are eating caviar and occupying nice homes in Paris and Beverly Hills. Many Israelis who choose not to follow the Halacha are eating garinim (i.e., sunflower seeds) and occupying taxi cabs in the Bronx. Whatever my disagreements with them, maybe what Saal, Teitz, Meth, and Schechter are saying is that Israel should be a Light for the Nations (or la'goyim), and not their taxi-cab drivers. -------- bill peter cmcl2!lanl!wkp