• This study identifies major preferences for combinations of rights and duties (henceforth, citizenship orientations), as reflected in the political worldview of Israeli junior-high school students. (ed.gov)
  • In order to contextualize the examination of citizenship orientations in the deeply divided Israeli society, the study compares three educational sectors that represent these rifts. (ed.gov)
  • Israeli citizenship law details the conditions by which a person holds citizenship of Israel. (wikipedia.org)
  • Every Jew in the world has the unrestricted right to immigrate to Israel and become an Israeli citizen. (wikipedia.org)
  • Individuals born within the country receive Israeli citizenship at birth if at least one parent is a citizen. (wikipedia.org)
  • We are non-Israeli Jews who oppose the program because it promotes and supports Israel's ongoing colonialism and apartheid policies, and marginalizes Jewish experiences in the diaspora. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Over the course of the last decade, the program has worked to create and maintain commitment to Zionism and Israel on the part of non-Israeli Jews. (electronicintifada.net)
  • For non-Israeli Jews living in other settler-colonial countries, we must also be accountable to other processes of de-colonization. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Meanwhile a Jew born and raised in New York has a "birthright" to the Israeli state in Palestine, is considered a national, and can almost immediately become a citizen upon emigrating. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Birthright in particular - as a part of the Zionist project - relies on the belief that non-Israeli Jews are national-citizens-in-waiting, a reality from which Palestinian refugees are forever excluded. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Convincing non-Israeli Jews to defend Netanyahu's "real Israel" is an integral part of Birthright, and helps explain the government's investment in the program. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Whether you are interested in making aliyah to Israel or in obtaining foreign citizenship as an Israeli, a Jewish immigration lawyer can help you achieve your goals. (csun.edu)
  • To ensure that every Jew can be a part of Israel, the Israeli government established the Law of Return in 1950. (csun.edu)
  • The law states that every Jew is entitled to make aliyah to Israel, meaning they can become Israeli citizens on the basis of them being a part of the Jewish people. (csun.edu)
  • Both of the aliyah processes do not require any fee payments, as the Israeli government wishes to encourage Jews to come and reside in Israel. (csun.edu)
  • Violence occurred between Muslims and the police on Jerusalem Day, the June 2 national holiday celebrating the anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem and Israeli control over the Old City, after hundreds of Jews were allowed into the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, and which coincided with the last 10 days of Ramadan. (state.gov)
  • This also explains why, the more that Israeli leadership moves to the right, both politically and religiously, the less solidarity liberal American Jews feel with Israel, despite its importance to them. (frontpagemag.com)
  • But students who attended the weeklong event this spring at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) were treated to more disturbing rhetoric when two of the speakers trotted out anti-Semitic canards blaming Israeli Jews for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (splcenter.org)
  • What was the method of citizenship and residency revocation under Israeli law until now? (972mag.com)
  • According to an amendment to the 2008 Citizenship Law, the Israeli interior minister is authorized, upon the recommendation of the attorney general and with the approval of a district court, to revoke the citizenship of individuals who have committed an act that amounts to "breach of loyalty to the State of Israel. (972mag.com)
  • There are, for example, some 30 laws that explicitly discriminate between Jews and non-Jews - another way of referring to the fifth of the Israeli population who are Palestinian and supposedly enjoy full citizenship. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • First, let us examine the nature of Israeli citizenship. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Israel excludes a nationality of "Israeli" to ensure that, in fulfilment of its self-definition as a "Jewish state", it is able to assign superior rights of citizenship to the collective "nation" of Jews around the globe than to the body of actual citizens in its territory, which includes many Palestinians. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Oren Hazan, a member of parliament from Netanyahu's Likud Party, advocated stripping Portman of her Israeli citizenship. (progressive.org)
  • Or are the responsibilities of Israeli citizenship, such as military service, the price of entry to the Jewish people? (jta.org)
  • Certain Israeli leaders, such as Interior Minister Eli Yishai of the fervently Orthodox Shas Party, and Chief Rabbis Yisrael Meir Lau and Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, want to strike the grandfather clause and limit the Law of Return to halachic Jews. (jta.org)
  • Most patients were citizens of Israel (53.9%), while 37.7% had no Israeli citizenship. (bvsalud.org)
  • Those seeking Spanish citizenship will also be asked to prove links to Spain with documents confirming the applicant took classes in Spanish history or culture. (ynetnews.com)
  • Citizenship applications could be based on family documents kept throughout the generations, such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, a Ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) written according to the tradition of the Castile Jews, and other similar documents. (ynetnews.com)
  • He wasn't Canadian - he was Jewish," she said, before realizing that statement was incredibly offensive to Jews in the audience, including my daughter, her friend and the friend's father. (blogspot.com)
  • Although prospective applicants do not need to be practicing Jews, they must prove their Sephardic background through a combination of factors, including ancestry, surnames and spoken language (either Ladino, a Jewish language that evolved from medieval Spanish, or Haketia, a mixture of Hebrew, Spanish and Judeo-Moroccan Arabic). (jewishpress.com)
  • Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, doubted that Spain will receive a flood of applications for citizenship. (hamodia.com)
  • Naturalizing non-Jews are additionally required to renounce their previous nationalities, while Jewish immigrants are not subject to this requirement. (wikipedia.org)
  • other non-Jewish citizens and Haredi Jews are exempt from conscription. (wikipedia.org)
  • The dissolution of the mandate in 1948 and subsequent conflict created a set of complex citizenship circumstances for the non-Jewish inhabitants of the region that continue unresolved. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Sara Koplik of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico , some of them are interested in Spanish citizenship as an insurance policy while others feel a genuine affinity with Spain based on their family history. (ifuturecitizen.com)
  • JTA) - An international Jewish organization of Russian-speaking Jews was launched to influence governments to join the fight against Iran. (jta.org)
  • The author notes that while each instance took place in unique social, political, and cultural contexts, what they share is a common belief by Jewish populations that they enjoyed full and emancipated citizenship rights, and that law was a tool available to them as citizens of North American democracies to combat these manifestations of Jew hatred. (concordia.ca)
  • The Jewish leaders next started on the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem , and here again met with the hostility of the Samaritans, whose complaints at the Court of Persia were most successful under Artaxerxes I "Longimanus" (464-424 B.C.), who issued orders strictly forbidding the Jews to proceed with the work. (catholic.com)
  • The Lapidus collection tells the complex, ongoing story of the Jewish people's path to emancipation-the process through which Jews obtained rights-in Europe, across centuries. (myjewishlearning.com)
  • Hedy speaks about what it means to be Jewish in America and support Palestine, while Jews in the USA are taught that Israel is an ally of the United States while it practices apartheid against the Palestinians. (bbsradio.com)
  • Jewish settlement was renewed in the early 18th century when the Court Jews Behrend Lehmann and Jonas Mayer, with their retainers, were permitted to settle in Dresden. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • You understand that an American Jewish community that sent its sons and daughters to Mississippi when African Americans were denied equal citizenship merely because they were not white cannot turn away when millions of West Bank Palestinians are denied rights simply because they are not Jews," Beinart wrote in a press release sent yesterday under the J Street masthead. (freebeacon.com)
  • Individuals were defined as Jews if three or four of their grandparents were Jewish. (archives.gov)
  • The story of three doctors, one of them Jewish, practicing with a fake identity, that fool the SS with a fake disease that saved Jews from certain deportation. (timesofisrael.com)
  • For further discussion about Jews and FDR's New Deal, along with Jewish concerns during the tenure of LBJ, see here . (frontpagemag.com)
  • Under the legislation, those able to prove their Jewish heritage and their "special connection" to Spain were able to apply for citizenship, with the justice ministry saying it received 132,226 applications. (ticotimes.net)
  • And Jewish synagogues and structures, as well as religious artifacts that were confiscated after the Jews were forced out, have yet to be returned to Jewish ownership. (jpost.com)
  • In many cases, Jews no longer live alongside the synagogues, cemeteries, and other Jewish historical structures at risk of perishing. (brandeis.edu)
  • These buildings can be vehicles for educating the Jewish people about their story and local populations about who the Jews were, combating ignorance and prejudice, and building empathy and understanding. (brandeis.edu)
  • When they couldn't meet the Russian government's quotas, which quadrupled for Jews in the late 1840s and 1850s due to the Crimean War, they enlisted kidnappers, many of them Jewish, to abduct Jews for service. (brandeis.edu)
  • Today, it's believed that only five Jews live in Iraq, not even enough for a minyan, the quorum of 10 required for public worship under Jewish law. (brandeis.edu)
  • Although criticism of Israel does not typically amount to anti-Semitism - and many critics of the Jewish state are unfairly accused of bigotry - in some cases those who denounce Israel also cross the line into denigration of Jews as a group. (splcenter.org)
  • These men had only the weakest ties to Judaism and to the Jewish people, but they were willing to risk their lives and their American citizenship for the fledgling Jewish state. (lukeford.net)
  • I don't think you could get a job in the fire department or the police department of New York if you were Jewish… What changed me was knowing what Hitler did to the Jews. (lukeford.net)
  • While one of the pilots wasn't Jewish, one widow (mother of actor Paul Reubens, who is interviewed with her, oddly, in a synagogue) notes that her husband Milton Rubenfeld was frustrated that he was working as a stunt pilot because airlines weren't hiring Jews. (lukeford.net)
  • A renewed call to change the Law of Return which guarantees citizenship to any Jew in Israel with at least one Jewish grandparent - is turning the spotlight on immigration from the former Soviet Union. (jta.org)
  • With Israel defining itself as the Jewish state - and with the rigorously Orthodox rabbinate in charge of issues such as marriage, divorce and burial - an influx of large numbers of non-Jews raises difficult societal questions. (jta.org)
  • An amendment in 1970 extended that right to non-Jews who had a Jewish parent or grandparent, their spouses and the spouses of Jews. (jta.org)
  • Assuming that half of those 250,000 are women of childbearing age, the figures mean that in coming generations the Jewish state will be producing non-Jews, since halachah does not accept the children of non-Jewish mothers as Jews. (jta.org)
  • The conditions required to submit a request for citizenship have been thought out by Spanish authorities to the most minute detail and span over 10 pages, including a detailed description of a requirement to prove a family connection to the Jews that were expelled 523 years ago. (ynetnews.com)
  • The extension of one year until Sept. 2021 only applies to those who had presented their preliminary request for citizenship before the Oct. 2019 deadline. (hamodia.com)
  • Those who are the descendants of former citizens are entitled to submit a request for citizenship to the Department of Citizenship in Cologne. (csun.edu)
  • After months of speculation, Spain's lower house iapproved a new citizenship law on Thursday that allowing descendents of the Jews forced to flee the country in 1492 to receive Spanish passports. (ynetnews.com)
  • Fewer than 50,000 Jews currently live in Spain -- a fraction of the number who lived in the country before 1492, when they were forced to convert to Catholicism or leave the country. (jewishpress.com)
  • A piece of much-heralded legislation to grant Spanish citizenship to up to 3.5 million descendants of Jews expelled from the country in 1492 is about to end in failure: fewer than 10,000 Jews have been awarded Spanish passports ahead of an October 1, 2019 deadline. (jewishpress.com)
  • The Spanish conservative government plans to pass a law within weeks or months that offers citizenship to descendants of legions of Jews forced to flee in 1492. (hamodia.com)
  • As noted by Hans-Ulrich Jessurun d'Oliveira , the Spanish Edict of Expulsion from 1492 involved between 100,000 and 150,000 Jews out of a total population of 11,5 million. (ifuturecitizen.com)
  • For Jews living in Spain at the time, 1492 was a year burned into historical memory when their community of at least 200,000 people were forced into exile. (ticotimes.net)
  • Over five centuries after the wicked monarchs cruelly expelled the country's Jews in 1492, Spain now finds itself clamoring for their return. (jpost.com)
  • The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry, its contributions to Spanish art, civilization and culture, are all largely overlooked in the Spanish educational system, as is the 1492 expulsion and the Inquisition's brutal efforts to hunt down crypto-Jews. (jpost.com)
  • In October 2015, a Spanish law entered into force which allows the descendants of Jews expelled from 15th century Spain to apply for Spanish citizenship. (ifuturecitizen.com)
  • In an irony as sweet as it is long overdue, the government in Madrid approved a draft bill on February 7 offering citizenship to descendants of Sephardi Jews while also easing residency and other requirements. (jpost.com)
  • Five hundred years after the Jews of Spain were burned at the stake, forced to convert or ordered into exile, Spain is moving to make amends: the EU country is on the verge of offering citizenship to descendants of victims estimated to number in the millions. (hamodia.com)
  • Elsewhere in Europe, Germany offers citizenship to descendants of Jews forced to flee the Nazis. (hamodia.com)
  • Also known as the "Right of Return" for Sephardic Jews ( Sepharad means "Spain" in Hebrew), the law purported to grant Spanish citizenship to anyone able to meet two seemingly straightforward requirements: prove Sephardic heritage and demonstrate a "special connection" to Spain. (jewishpress.com)
  • Foreigners could obtain Palestinian citizenship through naturalization after residing in the territory for at least two of the three years preceding an application, fulfilling a language requirement (in English, Hebrew, or Arabic), affirming their intention to permanently reside in Mandate territory, and satisfying a good character requirement. (wikipedia.org)
  • These Sephardic Jews (derived from the Hebrew word for Spain: Sepharad) would settle not only in Europe and Northern Africa, but also in South America and the Caribbean. (ifuturecitizen.com)
  • Known as Sephardim - the Hebrew term for Jews of Spanish origin - many of the exiles fled to the Ottoman Empire or North Africa and later to Latin America. (ticotimes.net)
  • Recruitment for Machal (the Hebrew acronym for "volunteers from outside the land", which still operates, now chaired by Smoky Simon, the South African pilot) was all "hush hush", as any American participant risked loss of U.S. citizenship and indictment for violating the U.S. Neutrality Acts. (lukeford.net)
  • The Spanish government has agreed to grant Spanish nationality by naturalization card to certain Sephardic Jews of Spanish origin. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Spain's Minister for Justice, Rafael Catalá, framed the measure within the implementation of the Law to grant nationality to Sephardic Jews approved in June, which came into force on Thursday, October 1. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The beneficiaries of last Friday's agreement are the 4,302 Sephardic Jews that initiated the process to acquire Spanish nationality prior to this date. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The reform will allow dual nationality, enabling the newly minted Spaniards to retain their previous citizenship. (hamodia.com)
  • Such an arrangement would give Sephardic Jews the same dual nationality privilege Spain currently grants only to Latin Americans. (hamodia.com)
  • Since the law went into effect, 4,919 Sephardic Jews have obtained Spanish nationality , although only 387 have done so on the basis of this law. (elpais.com)
  • The distinction between the meaning of the terms citizenship and nationality is not always clear in the English language and differs by country. (wikipedia.org)
  • Any person born outside of these conditions who held no other nationality and were otherwise stateless at birth also automatically acquired citizenship. (wikipedia.org)
  • In contemporary Israel - where approximately one-fifth of the population is Palestinian - the rights of citizenship ( ezrahut ) and nationality ( le'um ) are intentionally distinct. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Gerson Şarhon added that two-thirds of the approximately 15,000 Sephardic Jews living in Istanbul have chosen to become Portuguese citizens because that country, unlike Spain, does not require language exams for descendants of Sephardic Jews to be naturalized there. (jewishpress.com)
  • Israel's citizens of Sephardic descent may soon be able to claim citizenship in Spain, if a new law seeking to right an historical wrong is passed in the Spanish Parliament. (hamodia.com)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin says he "couldn't care less" if Russian citizens sought to interfere in U.S. elections, suggesting that maybe Jews or Ukrainians are to blame for meddling. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Join curator Ivy Weingram for a one-hour tour in which she addresses these meaningful questions in the special exhibition, How Jews Became Citizens: Highlights from the Sid Lapidus Collection. (myjewishlearning.com)
  • Countries such as Germany and Austria, where many Jews perished and have been persecuted during the second world war, have established laws to allow for the descendants of former citizens or residents to obtain citizenship. (csun.edu)
  • The German citizenship law enables the descendants of former German citizens and residents to obtain citizenship. (csun.edu)
  • Many Jews who were citizens of the country were denied their citizenship and had to flee to other countries. (csun.edu)
  • They were stripped of their German citizenship and prohibited from marrying German citizens. (archives.gov)
  • Initially adopted in 1950, the Law of Return gave every Jew the right to immigrate to Israel. (jta.org)
  • Those who are the descendants of Jews who lived in Germany before 1933 without obtaining citizenship, and fled Germany after the Nazis rose to power, may receive German citizenship as well. (csun.edu)
  • Turkish nationals originating from Mandatory territory but habitually resident elsewhere on that date had a right to choose Palestinian citizenship, but this required an application within two years of the treaty's enforcement and approval by the Mandatory government. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Palestinian Citizenship Order 1925 confirmed the transition from Ottoman/Turkish to Palestinian citizenship in local legislation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Legitimate children of a Palestinian father automatically held Palestinian citizenship. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israel claims all Jews have a "birthright" to the country, while Palestinian refugees are barred from return. (electronicintifada.net)
  • After Esdras 's death, which probably occurred not long before the end of the Persian rule over Juda in 333 B.C., little is distinctly known of the history of the Palestinian Jews. (catholic.com)
  • It's time to ALL 6 million Arabs of Palestine to obtain the citizenship of the Palestinian National Autonomy. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Every time someone criticizes the occupation [of Palestinian territory], they are accused of treason and some idiots demand stripping them of citizenship. (progressive.org)
  • the nature and extent of citizenship together with the accepted grounds of dual citizenship. (lu.se)
  • Political Zionism is a movement based on the belief that Jews have a right to settle in modern-day Israel, to the exclusion of the indigenous Palestinians. (electronicintifada.net)
  • A new law, passed by an overwhelming Knesset majority, is part of an ongoing process of entrenching separate legal systems for Jews and Palestinians. (972mag.com)
  • Israel already has a legal mechanism - which is problematic in itself, and which was recently upheld by the Supreme Court - by which the state can revoke the citizenship of Palestinians in Israel, as well as additional legal mechanisms for revoking the residency of Palestinians from East Jerusalem. (972mag.com)
  • But the new law passed last week is expected to significantly expand the scope of these mechanisms and, in doing so, to further entrench two separate legal systems for Jews and Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line. (972mag.com)
  • Blood libel refers to a centuries-old false allegation that Jews murder Christians - especially Christian children - to use their blood for ritual purposes, such as an ingredient in the baking of Passover matzah (unleavened bread). (concordia.ca)
  • This has included, for example, anti-Israel literature that perpetuates the medieval anti-Semitic blood libel of Jews slaughtering children for ritual purpose, as well as anti-Zionist propaganda that exploits ancient stereotypes of Jews as greedy, aggressive, overly powerful or conspiratorial. (splcenter.org)
  • Derek Penslar from Oxford: "At the end of WWII, there was massive pressure on the British who controlled Palestine to allow Jews to immigrate in large numbers to Palestine, which is something the British government refused to do, because they know if they are to have a future in the region, they will have to have the good will of the whole Arab world. (lukeford.net)
  • The World Forum of Russian Jewry was inaugurated Wednesday at the United Nations during a ceremony commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres with the participation of nearly 600 American Russian-speaking Jews and Holocaust survivors. (jta.org)
  • Our goal is to bring together Russian-speaking Jews from around the world in order to save ourselves and other people from the next catastrophe and genocide, to preserve the world peace, and protect our national land at the State of Israel," Levin said. (jta.org)
  • We, the Russian-speaking Jews from the far-flung corner of the Earth, stand ready to unite against him and the nuclear program of Iran. (jta.org)
  • The Sephardic Ancestry Bill will enable an estimated 2.2 million descendents of the expelled Jews to apply for Spanish citizenship, which they could hold alongside an additional citizenship. (ynetnews.com)
  • Spain's vote on Thursday afternoon followed the approval in March of a similar citizenship plan in Portugal for Sephardic Jews whose ancestors were forced to leave that country. (ynetnews.com)
  • In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País , the director of the Sephardic Center in Istanbul, Karen Gerson Şarhon, noted the paradox that even though Sephardic Jews have preserved Ladino or Haketia for hundreds of years, proficiency in those languages in and of itself does not qualify them for Spanish citizenship. (jewishpress.com)
  • A Sephardic Jew who speaks Ladino perfectly understands spoken Spanish," she said, "but fails the exam because the differences in the written and the oral are very great. (jewishpress.com)
  • Spain's government said Thursday it will extend the deadline for descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from the country more than 500 years ago, who have launched the process of acquiring Spanish citizenship but couldn't complete it due to the pandemic. (hamodia.com)
  • In Oct. 2019, the ministry said that more than 132,000 people who claim Sephardic origins had requested Spanish citizenship since the law offering them the opportunity took effect in 2015. (hamodia.com)
  • It is estimated that Sephardic Jews range between a fifth and a third of the world's roughly 13 million Jews. (hamodia.com)
  • Descendants of Sephardic Jews, he said, will be considered "children of Spain. (hamodia.com)
  • While the term Sephardic is used to describe Jews not only from Spain but more generally from North African and Middle Eastern countries, as well, the law in question would affect only descendants of Jews from Spain. (hamodia.com)
  • Applicants will have to provide details of their birth and family name or prove knowledge of Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language considered to be the "Yiddish" of Sephardic Jews. (hamodia.com)
  • The Spanish Justice Ministry has waived the Spanish language and culture examination requirement for Sephardic Jews over 70 years of age who are applying for citizenship. (elpais.com)
  • Sephardic Jew Marco Macías at a Spanish citizenship ceremony. (elpais.com)
  • There are around 15,000 Sephardic Jews in Turkey, of whom 3,000 have already secured a Spanish identity card through different citizenship application procedures from those set out in the special law of 2015. (elpais.com)
  • This, along with the Spanish language test, constitutes the biggest hurdle for Sephardic Jews wishing to apply for citizenship through this channel. (elpais.com)
  • Maghrebi Sephardic Jews in 1919. (ifuturecitizen.com)
  • Ear-ly in my writ-ing career, I attend-ed an event at the Uni-ver-si-ty of Wash-ing-ton dis-cussing the pres-ence of Sephardic Jews in Seat-tle. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • He told me about his father, one of the first Sephardic rab-bi in Seat-tle, and how he, a retired green-gro-cer, taught Ladi-no (a Jew-ish dialect of Span-ish) at his syn-a-gogue. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • The two primary pieces of legislation governing these requirements are the 1950 Law of Return and 1952 Citizenship Law. (wikipedia.org)
  • Applicants seeking a Spanish passport will have to prove blood relation to expelled Jews, as well as cultural ties to Spain, including a language test. (ynetnews.com)
  • The Justice Ministry says that there will soon be a rise in citizenship awarded through the law because 1,897 people have recently taken the DELE Spanish language examination (which is not a requirement for applicants from Spanish-speaking countries) and 6,127 have sat the CCSE test. (elpais.com)
  • The process of requesting German citizenship requires gathering documentation proving the eligibility of the applicants. (csun.edu)
  • Unlike the recent legislation, applicants under that law had to relinquish any other citizenship and were required to live in Spain. (ticotimes.net)
  • Our offices in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv specialize in all things immigration, including the process of making aliyah and obtaining foreign citizenship for Jews. (csun.edu)
  • Owing to the immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union , the number of community members rose to 618 in 2005. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Though immigration has tailed off sharply in recent years, the percentage of non-Jews among the immigrants has risen as high as 70 percent, according to Israel's chief rabbis. (jta.org)
  • A group of Orthodox Jews seceded and founded the "Shomerei ha-Dat" congregations. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • As for the growing number of Orthodox Jews that identify as Republican, up from 57 percent in 2013 to 75 percent today, one headline declared , "In voting, Orthodox Jews are looking more like evangelicals. (frontpagemag.com)
  • His great-grandfather Jose Rojas Moreno was the Spanish ambassador to Romania during World War II and is credited with helping to prevent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. (hamodia.com)
  • There were 12 deportations, dispatching 1,300 Jews, between January 1942 and January 1944 . (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • In Yossi Harpaz's analysis , close to 60,000 Israelis applied for citizenship of an EU Member State in the first decade of the 21st century - in particular the citizenship of the Central and Eastern European countries from which their families once immigrated. (ifuturecitizen.com)
  • She wrote, "Like many Israelis and Jews around the world, I can be critical of the leadership in Israel without wanting to boycott the entire nation. (progressive.org)
  • citizenship refers to the set of rights and duties a person has in that nation. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this light, this research interrogates how the new dispensation under the 2013 Constitution has shaped the term 'citizenship' together with the corollary rights and duties appended to this concept. (lu.se)
  • Jews like you are only loyal to Israel and not to the countries where we accepted you and cared for you, like America, England and Canadia! (blogspot.com)
  • Since 1999, Birthright has brought 340,000 young Jews to Israel on free ten-day trips. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Within the green line, Israel strives to live out those principles by granting citizenship to its Arab residents," Beinart wrote via e-mail. (freebeacon.com)
  • Therefore," Beinart added, "while there is no legitimate comparison between Israel as a whole and the segregated south, there is an obvious comparison between the West Bank and the segregated south, since in both places one ethnic group enjoys the rights of citizenship and another does not. (freebeacon.com)
  • Given the fact that the Democrat Party has been less and less friendly to Israel in recent years, and given President Obama's icy relationship with then-Prime Minister Netanyahu, what explains the deep solidarity between Democrats and Jews? (frontpagemag.com)
  • Nearly 1 million immigrants have moved to Israel from the former Soviet Union since the floodgates opened in the late 1980s - and as many as a quarter of them are not Jews according to religious law, experts say. (jta.org)
  • In an attempt to rectify the damage, Austria allows the descendants of Austrian Jews to receive Austrian citizenship. (csun.edu)
  • My thoughts, assertions and observations on issues important to me as a Jew, a Zionist, a Revenant in Yesha and as an inquisitive human being. (blogspot.com)
  • The speakers, Imam Mohammad al-Asi and Amir Abdel Malik Ali, also asserted that Zionist Jews control the media, financial institutions and the U.S. government. (splcenter.org)
  • In 1827, Czar Nicholas I of Russia issued the Statute on Conscription Duty, requiring Russian Jews to serve in the army for 25 years. (brandeis.edu)
  • To escape conscription, some Jews fled the country or went into hiding. (brandeis.edu)
  • So far, only 6,000 people have been granted citizenship under the scheme. (ticotimes.net)
  • However, no matter what kind of challenges or difficulties they might face, the enthusiasm of these Israelite Jews living in exile knows no bounds. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • One was the 2011 statement by the then-leader of Spain's Balearic Islands condemning the slaughter of 37 Jews from Mallorca in 1691 during the Inquisition. (hamodia.com)
  • Although those applying under the new law did not have to be practising Jews, they needed to pass a Spanish language test as well as answering questions on Spain's culture and society. (ticotimes.net)
  • On Feb. 15, the Knesset approved a new bill titled "Law for Revoking the Citizenship or Residency Status of a Terrorist Operative Receiving Compensation for Committing an Act of Terrorism, 2023. (972mag.com)
  • Do you think the British, American, Swiss or Russian Jews would openly defy the draft in their respective countries like that? (theyeshivaworld.com)
  • If the Jews in Russia would try to openly defy the draft they would get firing squads and pogroms in response. (theyeshivaworld.com)
  • Daniela, did the Jews openly come out and tell the government and the general populace to go jump in the lake and then just went to be executed? (theyeshivaworld.com)
  • Coming at a time of rising anti-Semitism across Europe, it is refreshing to see European states making an effort to welcome Jews so openly. (jpost.com)
  • Jew-ish Book Coun-cil, found-ed in 1943 , is the longest-run-n-ing orga-ni-za-tion devot-ed exclu-sive-ly to the sup-port and cel-e-bra-tion of Jew-ish literature. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • And there is no doubt that an economic rationale also lies behind the new law on citizenship. (jpost.com)
  • The main rationale of this study being to identify gaps in the legal framework regulating citizenship so as to proffer recommendations aligned to international best practice as remedial to the would be identified shortcomings. (lu.se)
  • Spanish leaders promised that the law - which entered into force on October 1, 2015 for a period of three years and was extended for one additional year - would "right a historic wrong" and demonstrate that more than 500 years after the Inquisition began, Jews are once again welcome in Spain. (jewishpress.com)
  • the latter, the creed and worship of the Jews in contrast to Christianity , Mohammedanism, etc. (catholic.com)
  • In the West Bank, by contrast, citizenship is ethnically based. (freebeacon.com)
  • With the advent of the 500 -year anniver-sary, Jews all over the world had brought out antiques or relics that linked them to the past. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • Many Jews from East Europe settled there after World War I. A prosperous and well-endowed community, it owned a valuable library and maintained numerous social and charitable organizations. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • And why is it that, generally speaking, Jews in different parts of the world tend to lean centrist or right, quite the opposite of things here in the USA? (frontpagemag.com)
  • The concept of citizenship is highly topical in modern political and legal debates world over. (lu.se)
  • The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is named after Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews and other people at risk in Hungary at the end of World War II. (lu.se)
  • A few Jews managed to thrive in the army and maintain their religious identity. (brandeis.edu)
  • This arrangement resonates powerfully with American Jews for practical reasons - it gives them a chance to participate as equals in a way they had not experienced elsewhere - and it differs radically from their historical experience as, at best, a 'tolerated' minority whose status often changed on the whims of rulers. (frontpagemag.com)
  • While some hoped a "Spanish sounding" last name would be enough to receive Spanish citizenship, the process itself is not so simple. (ynetnews.com)
  • The legislation, however, introduced so many cumbersome bureaucratic hurdles to obtain Spanish citizenship that most prospective hopefuls appear to have been deterred from even initiating the application process. (jewishpress.com)
  • The legislation's main barriers to Spanish citizenship have been obligatory exams on Spanish language and socio-cultural history, the need to travel to Spain and exorbitant fees and costs. (jewishpress.com)
  • Overall, fewer than 400 Jews obtained Spanish citizenship during the first two years of the law's existence. (jewishpress.com)
  • Egyptian society was so enamored with the Nazi war against the Jews that a young army officer felt compelled to write a postwar letter to Hitler via the Cairo weekly, Al Musawwar , as though Hitler were still alive. (tikkun.org)
  • Egypt was hardly alone in reinventing the Nazi war against the Jews. (tikkun.org)
  • After that January day, things began to get slowly worse for Jews and other minorities in Germany. (bbsradio.com)
  • Evangelicals, with their 'God talk,' insistence on a "Christian America," and general willingness to deny fundamental liberties to some minorities on religious grounds, struck many American Jews as a fundamental danger to core values of the polity. (frontpagemag.com)
  • There was an arti-cle in the paper about a man in Seat-tle who pub-licly stat-ed that he might for-give Spain for what it did to its Jew-ish cit-i-zens, but he did not plan to for-get. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • And that, of course, is what makes this development so decidedly ironic: the Expulsion happened in part because Spain wanted the Jews' assets, and now they are welcoming Jews back for the same reason. (jpost.com)
  • The right of citizenship under the Roman government was granted by the emperor to individuals, and sometimes to provinces, as a favour or as a recompense for services rendered to the state, or for a sum of money ( Acts 22:28 ). (ccel.org)
  • The foundation of the second Temple was laid in the second month of the second year after the Return, but no further headway was made for fifteen or sixteen years, owing to the active interference and positive misrepresentations to the Persian kings by the Samaritans to whom the Jews had denied a share in the work of rebuilding the House of the Lord. (catholic.com)
  • As communal leader for 30 years, Beer was active in efforts for improvement of the civil status of the Jews in Dresden and the rest of Saxony. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • In her own case, it took seven years to get citizenship under a previous law dating back to 1924. (ticotimes.net)
  • Jews arrived in Iraq more than 2,500 years ago, exiled there after the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II ransacked Jerusalem and destroyed the First Temple. (brandeis.edu)
  • An audit by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which fights bigotry, found that 94 anti-Semitic incidents were reported on U.S. campuses in 2007 - a number that has remained fairly stable over the past few years and represents only about 6% of known occurrences last year of harassment and vandalism targeting Jews. (splcenter.org)
  • They also stripped him of his German citizenship and publicly burned his books. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Among those detained was the director of the Women of the Wall organization Leslie Sachs, who said: "This is reminiscent of dark periods in our history when they took away the Jews' holy words and didn't let them pray. (jewishpress.com)
  • As a group, even allowing for individual differences, American Jews rank at or near the top on most measures of social class - education, income, occupational prestige and such. (frontpagemag.com)
  • One of the first official acts of the new ruler in Babylon was to give to the exiled Jews full liberty to return to Juda (see I Esdras , i). (catholic.com)
  • For the most part, it all can be traced back to the Law of Return, which begs the question of who is a Jew. (jta.org)
  • Although, there are major highlights of, global perspectives, with regards to the concept of citizenship, the bottom line is that this research mainly addresses the pertinent form and substance inherent in the terminology of citizenship from a Zimbabwean viewpoint. (lu.se)