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פסוק טז
"For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge I
will lodge; your people are my people and your God my God." (Ruth 1:16)
Who is a Jew?
In Israel today, there a number of different contexts for
determining Jewish identity – that determined by the state for purposes of
immigration, and that determined by the Orthodox Rabbinate which controls the assignment
of Jewish status to those living in Israel.