My Jerusalem Day - JPost - Opinion - Columnists

My Jerusalem Day - JPost - Opinion - Columnists This article discusses the Ethiopian Jews in Israel. I say, thank G_d they came and are once again part of the Jewish people in Israel. I have always be highly optimistic about the USA because of our Constitution and because we have a nation based on values, not just nationality, like the rest of the world. Israel is of course a Jewish State, but Judaism is based on a covenant, not just religious beliefs, so there really is no nationality of being an Israeli or a Jew. Having the Ethiopian Jews and the Russian Jews and the Sephardic Jews and the Ashkanazi Jews and American Jews and many others all coming to Israel helps Israel become much stronger than most other nations. The terrible tragedy of slavery and the Civil War and the heroic efforts in the fight for Civil Rights in the US by black Americans has made the US much stronger. There are no other nations in the world that are nearly as advanced on civil rights as is the US. Israel by embracing civil rights, even for arabs and muslims that openly campaign against it, and by bringing in Jews from all over the planet, gets strenghtened by the development of a common values system. In the US it is the Constitution, is Israel it is the Torah and Talmud and Gemara and, of course, Emuna.