Rabbi Moshe Feinstein,ZT"L ruled that for a congregation you can ask a Gentile outright & the same would apply for a person that is ill. The general practice other than for a synagogue you have to ask in a round about way for a synagogue you can ask outright.
Interesting! Rabbi Feinstein should be considered the final word on the matter, but I would love to see the source in Igeret Moshe. Rabbi Feinstein is someone who I do in fact respect from the Litvak world.
No we need to reform the law of return to read only if one is born of a Jewish mother or had a halachic conversion can one make aliyah & get automatic citizenship on arrival any half breeds of patrilineal descent or those with some obscure Jewish relative or none at all should have to go through a lengthy naturalization process just like in any other country!!!
You can thank Lubavitch for the myriads of "half breeds" coming to Israel. I have seen with my own eyes the facilitation of "authenticating" these people by Chabad so-called Rabbis so that they can make Aliyah in exchange for money or other benefits. I won't get into detail, but let's just say that the Russian oligarchs in Russia have Chabad in their pockets and compel them to do whatever they want.
No immigration baskets or other benefits those are & should only for real Jews!!! The no true Scotsman fallacy does not work here as a Jew is only one born of a Jewish mother or who had a halachic conversion end of story!!!
Yes, but when you see a Nordic or Slav looking Russian in Israel roasting BBQ pork you are automatically assuming that his mother was not Jewish. I have known many Russian Jews who could pass for any other race but Jewish. The point is that it doesn't matter -- if someone tells you they're Jewish, you have to assume they are, otherwise you fall into this trap of a logical fallacy which is exactly what the enemies of Israel want.
And if something is not done to reform the law of return Israel will be merely a Hebrew speaking Portugal but not a Jewish state!!! Who do I blame for this Anatoly Sharansky who was head of the Sochnut who brought all these smeg mazoids here i the first place as well as the Israeli left who were afraid that because of our high birthrates we religious Jews would replace them & that they would also lose their grip on power so they brought on loads of Russian Goyim so that they would vote for them!!!! This is much like the Democrats & illegal aliens in the US the more Hispanics the Democrats bring in the more voters they have!!!
I leave that to Hashem... We are obviously not going to take power and change anything substantially anytime soon... So we must rely on the Haredim and their high birthrates to sustain our majority. That's why I send money to Israel... It is not my place to play G-D and compel racial quotas. Israel was always very much majority "White" (for lack of a better term) ever since the begining... Who do you think was coming on those boats that was bringing in Holocaust refugees? In this the Arabs are right - White European Jews. I heard somewhere that from the 19th century to the 20th century, up until before the holocaust, the Jewish population in Europe increased from 200,000 to 6 million... Which kind of people do you think these were? Look at old photos of Israelis from old gazettes, yes, most of them are White.
It is our job to support them, I will leave it to G-D to keep his promise to the children of Jacob, eventhough I see the contrary before my very eyes today, and I will keep believing in him, no matter what.
Sorry for the long-winded post, and if it makes me sound like a kook.
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