Emanuel E. Moses, a leader of the Bnei Israel community in India, this weekend praised the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, for passing a resolution to dispel feelings among the members of the Bnei Israel community that they are the victims of discrimination. An official of the Indian Governments in Bombay, and chairman of the board of the United Synagogue of India, he stopped here on his way from Mexico.
The Indian Jewish leader attacked the Israeli Chief Rabbinate for its marriage directives applying to the Bnei Israel, declaring that these directives “cast doubt on the status of the Bnei Israel community as full-fledged Jews.” Mr. Moses, who is now on his way to Israel where he will confer with Bnei Israeli leaders on their problems, also asserted that “there was no basis for discrimination” against members of his group in Israel and stressed their “full Jewish status;”
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