The Zionist dreams for the State of Israel have been realized at last. We have become a nation like any other.


We have so-called "gay rights" groups, homosexuals and lesbians marching down the

The definition of a Jew under Torah law is based on matrilineal descent.

 main thoroughfares of our eternal capital, Jerusalem, the holiest city on earth.


We have organized crime families, drug dealers, thieves, rapists, murderers - many, if not most, of whom are Jews.


And now, at last, we also have neo-Nazis, burning with hatred of Jews and admiration for the man who exterminated some six million of us, and who would have murdered the rest if only he had more time.


Eight teenage wannabe Nazis were arrested a month ago after a year-long investigation that came on the heels of two anti-Semitic attacks on synagogues in Petach Tikva.


The teenage gang of immigrants from the former Soviet Union - only one of whom was truly Jewish according to the criteria set forth in Jewish law - was indicted last week on a variety of charges that included incitement to racism, grievous bodily harm and Holocaust denial.


They couldn't be charged with the crime of being neo-Nazis, because there is no law against it. The Jewish State, peopled by so many of those who were lucky enough to survive the Nazi death camps a scant few decades ago, does not recognize neo-Nazism as a crime.


Nor does Israel recognize the difference between Jewish immigrants who are returning home to their eternal Land, and non-Jewish immigrants who were motivated by little more than the opportunity to escape hardship in their own country at the expense of another. It is a curse of our own making. We voted to approve a Law of Return that allows - nay, even encourages - immigration of individuals with little, if any, connection to the vestige of Judaism in their background.


The law uses the Nazi definition of a Jew as criteria for automatic eligibility to become a citizen in the Jewish State. Documentation of descent from one grandparent of either gender on either side of the family is enough to qualify for thousands of shekels in immigrant benefits.


The definition of a Jew under Torah law is based on matrilineal descent: someone who is born of a Jewish mother, who was also born of a Jewish mother, and so on back through the entire family line. It is a definition still used by the Israeli Rabbinate, if not by the rest

At least one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union have become citizens.

of the government.


At least one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union have become citizens of the Jewish State since 1991. Of these, 250,000 to 330,000 do not consider themselves Jewish, and it is quite possible that even more are not Jewish according to Torah law. A significant percentage of those are outright anti-Semites, a fact which many will cheerfully share with you if you speak Russian and don't look like you're Jewish.


They might get automatic citizenship in the Jewish State under Israeli law, but the Chief Rabbinate is still unwilling to perform marriages for those who are unable to provide evidence of their bona fide Jewish ancestry. It's ironic that it should be the highly politicized, much disputed Chief Rabbinate that remains the sole government agency keeping Israel from becoming a nation truly like any other.