I think the Beastie boys were among the first to adopt hip hop style to mainstream taste. I can't say they weren't talented. But it wouldn't be fair to say black hip hop bands copied them since hip hop was created by blacks and originally- for blacks.
It's amazing how popular hip hop is among non blacks though and the fact that Beastie Boys influenced a lot of black hip hop musicians.. IT's well documented. I don't listen to hip hop so don't really care, but making a point.
I hope you don't accuse me too in leshon harah. I am trying to avoid that while steel saying things I see them. Sometimes the truth hearts, but a grown up person should deal with it rather then deny it.
I'm not naming names, but Yerusha I think gets the brunt of my criticism.
How about language, food, look, history, and genes? Do Russian Jews have nothing in common with Russia? come on it's simply not true.
Sorry, I think you misunderstood me.. I mean Ethiopians, in particular, have nothing in common with the rest of Africans around them. Of course, Ethiopian Jews have a lot in common with Ethiopian people in general. Just as Russian Jews have many things in common with Russsians and Moroccan Jews have many things in common with Moroccan people. Most Ethiopians I meet think the Africans around them are inferior to them. Ethiopian culture, itself, has many things in common with Japanese culture. Ethiopia, like Japan, is an ancient feudalistic society and the nation has sworn loyalty to a single monarch for centuries. There is actually no other African nation that has entirely sworn loyalty to a single monarch, who, himself, was a Christian monarch. If anything the structure of Ethiopian society had more in common with Ancient Egypt and Yemen. I would say the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian theocracy also shared some traits to that of the Russian Tzarist Orthodox Christian theocracy. The natives of Egypt (Coptic Christians) have many similar features to the Ethiopian Amhara/Tigray people. The Arabians in Egypt are actually invaders and have different genealogy then the native Coptic Christians who share a similar culture and even physical features to the Ethiopians.
Yes they are, Jews belong in Israel. I think we all (except for the original poster) agree on this point.
Good, I am glad we agree.. Then I have no issue with you. Obviously, I do not support any Jew, whether Ashkenazi, Mizrachi or Ethiopian promoting a pagan, non -Jewish lifestyle, religion or theology. However, I just wonder why people overlook how so many Ashkenazi and other Jews have promoted homosexuality in Israel with gay pride parades, but then bash on Ethiopian Jews for not being Jewish because some of them may be practicing Christianity. Why do they get the brunt of the scrutiny and always have their Jewishness challenged? I've also met many fellow Ashkenazi Jews who still seem to admire Communism and promote its ideologies after generations of brainwashing living behind the Iron Curtain.
The anusim were indeed forced into Catholicism. If they can prove that they are zera yisrael then they can rejoin am Yisrael. Sometimes they need some sort of conversion. If there is doubt they might need giyur lechumra because not everyone can trace his lineage hundreds of years. Anyway, it's a case by case process and the motivation is purely that of an Individual desire to rejoin his lost people. However with the Ethiopians non-Jews- it is completely different. In their case it is a batch process were entire clans of Christians are supposedly converted. Their motivation is purely materialistic since in return they literally win the lottery- receiving free housing, healthcare, welfare, education etc. in Israel.
Any Ethiopian Christian pretending to be a Jew should not be allowed into Israel unless he performs a real conversion just as with any other Jewish convert, the same can be said for a Norwegian Lutheran who converts to Judaism. However, there are Ethiopian Jewish people who have practiced Judaism for 1000+ years and who have Jewish lineage just as any other Jew in diaspora. Of course, there will be many frauds, especially coming from poorer countries.
Some of them might be descended from Jews who had chosen to convert under duress (they could chose to remain Jews like the Ethiopian Jews had done. Then they join in with the Christian and Muslims in persecuting the Jews. They tattoo crosses on the face of their women. We can't be sure any or all of them are zera Israel or not as they converted many generations ago (about 200 years ago if I recall correctly). Clearly these are the chaff we want to keep separated from am Yisrael and bless good riddance that they left. At least if you want to convert them then do it properly on individual basis, but to bring entire clans of them and then house them as clans in Israel is a guaranteed way to import African problems into Israel as if we need more trouble makers.
Have you lived entirely righteous life? That's a very bad way of promoting Judaism to Jews. Would you become a believer because someone beats you and lock you up? It seems awfully like Islamic tactics to me.
Many Jews over the generations were forced into converting to Christianity and Islam. That is a sad reality and I am sure there are Jewish people somewhere in the world who do not realize they have Jewish ancestry but since they have practiced a foreign religion for centuries they are pretty well cut off from their Jewish roots. However, there are Ethiopian Jews who have preserved their heritage and resisted conversion in a land that was very hostile to Jewish people and I think they should be respected for that, even if they are lacking some of the Oral teachings, which can be incorporated once they make aliyah and rejoin their homeland. The Ethiopian Jews were horribly persecuted. For example, the Ethioipan Jews would not eat with the CHristians in Ethiopia who ate raw meat. The Chrsitians would buy their meat from the EThiopian Jews as the Ethiopian Jews slaughtered their meat much closer to Kosher standards of the Torah, cutting the throat and draining the animal's blood. Ethioipan Jews would suffer pogroms, rape and murder in a very similar manner to how Jews did in Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
