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AddReply(214914,"Some Oromo are the True EThio Jews","Yonatan","USA","07/03/07","Personally, I think these Ethio Jews who are coming en masse to Israel are not truly genetically Jews.  If you read the scriptures correctly you will see Moshe married a Cushite women.  The people who are coming to Israel are Semites.  Therefore, some people of the Oromo tribe of Ethiopia would be the really benefactors of the Jewish genes.   Still, I am sure there are people with Jewish roots all over, but not to the extent that these people claim.  I think the Tigrai people (Beta-Israelites) adopted the religion, rather than were born into it.");
AddReply(214699,"The Falash Mura","Aryeh","NY","07/02/07","There are no black Jews.  There are no white Jews.  There are no Oriental Jews.  Jews are Jews no matter what their external skin, hair, or eye color is.\n\nThe article should have mentioned that there have been some problems with the Falsh Mura who have been admitted to Israel.  Some of them have tried to introduce their beliefs to Jews.  As such, they have become a problem. ");
AddReply(214698,"No Blacks nor Whites","Aryeh","NY","07/02/07","There are no black Jews.  There are no white Jews.  There are no Oriental Jews.  Jews are Jews no matter what their external skin, hair, or eye color is.\n\nThe nations of the world can have races or sub-races.  We cannot.  \n\nBanim atem ... lo titgoddu!");
AddReply(214637,"To Yonatan the Acculturated","Al Burke","Santa Monica","07/02/07","Ethiopian Jews have their own customs, like Persian Jews, Moroccan Jews, Yemenite Jews, etc. But they are not confusable with gentiles. You need to sit down with Ethiopian Jews in Israel, not gentiles in Ethiopia, to really learn about Ethiopian Jews and their history. From wherever you learned, you should ask for your money back. You have been misinformed.");
AddReply(214596,"Upside Down World","","","07/02/07","The ignorance of today\'s Jewish people is astonishing!\n\"Ethiopian\" Jews are not actual descendants of Avraham, Yitzchak & Yaakov.  They converted about500 years ago or so when Iraqi Jews were tradesmen & landed in Africa.  They took the Africans (as was the custom of that era) as slaves.  Eventually, they converted them to Judaism.  That\'s why there are Ethiopians who are light skinned and have white features.  They are a mixture.  Those who have halachaically converted are real Jews; but others are NOT.  Plain and simple.  We live in a phony, politically correct world where facts and truths, history mean absolutely nothing! The Jewish Agency has purposefully brought in many goyim, whether white, black, or whatever to DEJUDAIZE Israel.  That is the agenda; that is their goal - to literally make a mish mash.  It will NOT work.  The Tower of Babel has risen its ugly head once again!");
AddReply(214480,"Agreed about Kebra Negast is Christian","Yonatan","USA","07/01/07","I agree Kebra Negast is garbage from the barbaric Ethiopian Orthodox Church.  However, many Ethiopian Jews accepted teachings in this book.  Some of these were that Ethiopian Jews are the only Chosen people.  Another teaching was the Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia, stored by Ethio Jews, contrary to the Orthodox christians who claim Axum.  Another teaching, is that Solomon\'s offspring and the chosen Messiah will come from Ethiopia.  You cannot deny that many Ethiopian Jews adopted these teachings, as they felt it was to their advantage.");
AddReply(214444,"RE:  wrosencrantz","Chavah","Chicago","07/01/07","Listen it is not only the ultra, ultra Orthodox.  I\'m a blonde, blue-eyed ger with a gentile last name and let me tell you a lot of Jews of all stripes treat me as a 2nd class Jew.  I keep my background secret but they never stop asking questions.  I\'m definitely not a member of the tribe to a lot of people. \"Were your parents Jewish they ask?\"  Stupid, stupid, stupid - they never stop, even though they no it is wrong.  I really don\'t understand born-Jews - even someone as obvious ignorant as myself knows better.");
AddReply(214439,"About Falasha and Ethio Jews  - 2 ","Yonatan","USA","07/01/07","I, personally know that Ethiopian Jews have a special promise as prophesied in the bible.  But, if you dig into their history, you may not be so happy with the form of Judaism they practiced in their own country in the older times.");
AddReply(214438,"About Falasha and Ethio Jews","Yonatan","USA","07/01/07","The holy book of Ethiopian Jews and Ethiopian Orthodox stems from the Kebra Negast.  It goes back to this fake relationship between the Queen of Sheba and Solomon.  They would like to believe that God have forsaken Israel and adopted Ethiopia as the new holy land.  This same belief is held in Ethio Orthodox churches today.  However, most Ethio Jews and Christians do not even read Kebra Negast anymore due to its anti-semitism.  What I am trying to say though is that the black Sudanese muslims come from a background that is not more or less anti-Israel than the Falasha Jews.  I believe Sudanese Muslims are more hated by the Arabs than Even Ethiopians, for their darker skin.");
AddReply(214437,"Yonatan THE NOT IGNORANT","Yonatan","USA","07/01/07","Listen, I have been to Ethiopia. I have studied some history of Ethiopian Christians and Jews.  I think Ethiopians have every right to be Jews.  I have a great deal of love for Ethiopians.  Now listen, the original faith of Ethiopian Jews has a belief that they are holders of the Ark of the Covenant.  They believe that Geez is the holy language of Israel.  Also, they believe Solomon and Messiah will be descended only through them.  Who is the ignorant?  Read a few books on Ethiopian Jew history before you attack me.  I am happy that many Ethiopian Jews are putting away their native religion and adopting Israeli Jewish religion like they did 3000 years ago.  Many Ethiopian Jews are blessed.");
AddReply(214339,"The Ethiopians are our family ","art","jc","06/30/07","THe gov\'t must rescue these people,legit Jews, and let the Ethiopians bring them fully back into the fold. Not a east european rebbe. They must be rescued asap. Israel has helped, darfur refugees,boat people etc. Israel must recalim our own that is the only hope for the future");
AddReply(214330,"Response to #10 & 11","Daniel","Philadelphia","06/30/07","Re # 10 - The vast majority of the Jews remaining in Ethiopia, as well as the ones who have come in the past several years, accept the authority of the torah, not the Kebra Negast (which is a Christian text not accepted by the Jews). The Jews in Ethiopia are shomer shabbat, kashrut, taharat hamishpachah, not exactly the type that disparages other Jews, be they black or white.\n\nRe # 11 - You are correct, when there is a halachic question, we should consult the Gedolie Torah of our generation. And the Gedolie Torah who have looked most into this issue include the Chief Rabbi of Israel who spent 2 years looking into their claim and even visited Ethiopia to see first hand. After an exhaustive examination he stated \"They are Jews without a doubt.\" That has also been the position of Mafdal and Shas as well as the Rabinnical Counsel of America and of course Rav Ovadiah Yossef. Enough said.");
AddReply(214157,"Ethiopian Olim","David Harris","Jerusalem","06/29/07","I was witness two Shabbatot ago at the Christian Baptisimal site in Galiee on the Jordan River \"Yardenit \" to a group of about 100 Ethiopian Olim all wearing \"Jews for Jesus \"\nT-shirts They all spoke some Hebrew and had been here for a couple of years I told them they had come here under false intensions it did not seem to phase them in the least What was once a secret they now wear brazenly in public  and began to try and convert me !!\nIs anyone out there listening?\n??????????");
AddReply(214153,"Sudan","Dan","Netanya","06/29/07","These are the same people who refused to assist our Ethiopian brothers and sisters, raped, sodomized and starved them in refugee camps right? Would this administration have allowed Nazis into Israel? I think not. So why do we allow these Sudanese?");
AddReply(214104,"To #10 Yonatan the Ignorant","Al Burke","Santa Monica","06/29/07","Ethiopian Jews refer to themselves as the House of Israel (Beta Israel), Jew-Haters in Ethiopia refer to the Jews as Falasha. Falasha is equivalent to Kike. The Kebra Negast is a book by and for the Amhara tribe in Ethiopia, not the Jews.  The Falash Mura do not belong in Israel & the Ethiopian Jewish community does NOT want them in Israel. The Falash Mura are missionaries. If Ethiopian Jews in Israel ran immigration from Ethiopia, the Falash Mura would be properly excluded. People who want to exploit the Falash Mura to raise charity proceeds for their own personal income pursue the wrongful aliyah of the Falash Mura. ");
AddReply(214086,"CLARIFICATION ON MY COMMENTS ABOVE ","R\' Michael Shelomo","","06/29/07","In my responses to Yonatan (10)and Jonathan (11)is regarding the genuine Falashas of Jewish descent.  They suffered for centuries as Jews, and were even massacred by their Christian countrymen for their Jewishness, like other communities. That being said, I was NOT speaking about the Falash Mura, who are the \"marranos\" of the Ethiopian community. A-7 doesn\'t make the distinction, but a great many of them are practicing Christians, through and through.  \n\nOn one thing we can agree:  The intention of the government today has little to do with repatriating believing Jews to our homeland. Rather it\'s about working to fill the land with nonJews & nonJewishness.\n\nThe solution is for the Torah community to mobilize and create effective outreach programs that will strengthen converted Ethio Jews in Torah Judaism. There must be a database of their families to distinguish them from the goyim.");
AddReply(214082,"No, they didn\'t consult YOUR Gedholim...","R\' Michael Shelomo","","06/29/07","HaRav Ovadiah Yoseph and high Sepharadi Rabbanim ruled they are to be accepted as Jews. So what you mean is, \"MY Ashki Gedholei Torah were not consulted.\"  \n\nAfter the results of genetic testing, I side with those rabbanim who insist they must be converted \"le-Humrah\", as a stringency. It is a KINDNESS to consider them in need of official conversion; otherwise one must deal with their lack of kosher divorce in Ethopia, which means \"sapheq mamzeruth.\" \n\nThis is no matter: What is known to all Torah Sages is that they are a lost tribe with a persisting Jewish identity and an idolatry-free Jewish faith. (Can you say that about white Europeans and Japanese??) For that they deserve to be converted, and the right to live their lives as true Jews. By only recognizing YOUR Gedholim, you not only hurt an entire community of Gerim (a severe Torah Prohibition, but other non-Ashkenazim.");
AddReply(214077,"RESPONDING TO YONATAN\'S (10) RIDICULOUS COMMENT","R\' Michael Shelomo","","06/29/07","What a twisted comment. The Kebra Nagast is a holy book to Ethiopic Christians and Rastafarians (who also believe they have Hebrew roots)--NOT TO ETHIOPIAN JEWS.  Besides, you can\'t generalize a people\'s attitude by one obscure comment in their literature, but by their deeds.  Ethiopian Israeli youth have little if any knowledge of Torah--you think they study the Kebra Nagast, a book of another religion, in Israel?  Religiously?! Get real.\n\nAnyway, there is no need for the Kebra Nagast:  The way Falashas are treated in Israel alone is reason to incite negative feelings in them towards uppity, racist lighter-skinned Jews.  The truth is, like Jews of any color, they range from Torah scholars (two of whom I know personally) to prostitutes.  Stop the hate!\n\nBTW, if you didn\'t read, the Sudanese are MUSLIMS. You think it will be long before they assimilate into Palestinian culture?");
AddReply(214070,"to guy who said falashas hate whitey","wrosencratz","ny","06/29/07","can you bring proof or a link?\nI don\'t believe it.\n\nI think the opposite, that white Jews, both the ultra ultra orthodox and the far left secularists don\'t consider black Jews to be really Jewish.");
AddReply(214038,"US/EU/UN/Israeli Leaders TOP Priority Gifting Jewish Land to Muslim Terrorists","Linda Rivera","New York ","06/28/07","10,000 Gaza and Northern Samaria Jews were viciously religiously cleansed for Islam. Delighted with the results of terrorist-controlled Hamastan, the US/EU and Israeli leaders are DETERMINED to duplicate the same results in Judea and Samaria with a second global Islamic TERROR State dedicated to Jewish annihilation.\n\nIsraeli leaders don\'t want to spend time or money on Ethiopian Jews or on Jewish refugees from Gaza. Israeli leaders prefer eagerly financing the Islamic religious terror war against Jews with mega millions in tax revenues.");
AddReply(213960,"consulting Gedolei Torah","Jonathan","Manchester","06/28/07","The idea that Ethiopians / Falashas are of Jewish descent does not make them actually Halachically Jewish. Huge numbers of white Europeans are also of Jewish descent. Who knows, even the Japs may be from the 10 Tribes. As usual the State of Israel decided these things without consulting Gedolei Torah. ");
AddReply(213957,"Let me tell u about Falasha","Yonatan","USA","06/28/07","I like Africans, but let me tell you of Falasha people.  THough I agree some are related and are truly genetically Jews.  Look at their book the Kebra Negast, it directly states only Ethioipans are chosen and that the white Jews are demons.  Personally,  I think we are better with the 5000 sudanese, who dont truly hate Jews, than the Falasha.  Read kebra negast before u think ethio jews are so great.");
AddReply(213927,"Always Opining Over The Other, While Ignoring Ones Own","Adina Kutnicki","US","06/28/07","The regime plays a double game. They encourage aliyah, but mostly from the affluent & well educated Jewish communities. Since the Ethiopians don\'t fall into that category they turn their backs on them. Dreadful.\n\nAs for the Darfur refugees, the Muslim countries should be taking them, but Israel\'s liberal \'leading lights\' think this will score points with the outside world. It ain\'t gonna happen. \n");
AddReply(213913,"I disagree with #3","MAOZ","Yerushalayim","06/28/07","Obviously [or so I would have thought], if it were an issue of anti-black racism, Israel would not be bringing in 5000 Sudanese.\n\nIf the commenter at #3 had suggested \"Antisemitism Perhaps?\" I think he would have been far closer to the mark.");
AddReply(213847,"you\'re right","Batya","shiloh","06/28/07","There\'s something very sick in this country\'s priorities.\nNot only here in Israel.  When we were fighting against Disengagement, all I heard in US synagogues, MO ones, was the plight of Darfur.  Nobody spoke about Jews in danger.");
AddReply(213794,"absolutley disgraceful","marie","usa","06/28/07","I read about these African Jews before, I was thinking how sad Israel can not take them all in, afterall, it is a very small country under distressful situations and such.  But to come and find out they are taking in 5000 muslims from dafur is the most sickening thing I have read in sometime now and I read alot of sickening things anymore!! ");
AddReply(213779,"how could they?","terry","vv","06/28/07","that was my first thought,then speechless (wordless?)after reading this. then i thought, why am i surprised?,after everything else olmert & co. have done.");
AddReply(213748,"will black muslims ally with palis?","wrosencratz","ny","06/27/07","I would chose black Jews, who are poor and oppressed, over black Muslims any day. A country has to choose its priorities. Black Muslims may pose huge problems for the future, based on recent evidence.\n\nAnyway, I commend Israel for attempting to solve the refugee problem.");
AddReply(213735,"Racism Perhaps?","Peter","Rock Hill, SC ","06/27/07","I hate to say this, however this stinks of possible white European racism against black Africans. The fact that they are Jewish makes very little difference. \n\nTHE JEWS OF ETHIOPIA MUST BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO THEIR HOME IN ISRAEL. \n\nISRAELI GOVERNMENT... DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW, AND STOP DRAGGING YOUR FEET ON THIS!!!!");
AddReply(213723,"Demographic problem?","Roger Talbot","Lompoc, CA, USA","06/27/07","It will come as no surprise that the ones who are pushing for Israel to open its doors to Muslims from Darfur are the same ones who said we had to give up Gaza and the Shomron so we can maintain a Jewish majority.  These leftist are bald-faced lying traitors.");
AddReply(213701,"a schande","Schvach","","06/27/07","Given our history the Jewish State, and all Jews, should be highly sensitive to the matter of entry quotas. The delay in repatriating Ethiopians Jews to Israel is a schande. Also, despite the fact that absorbing refugees from Darfur makes good PR, I cringe at the possible long-term outcome of accepting possible Jew haters into Israel, especially if it\'s done to placate the demands of other Jew haters.\n");

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