Thank you for the kind feedback + interesting comments, Mervyn. One day I'm going to go check out these Shirazi...
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, 22:20 Mervyn Lobo, <mervynal...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > On Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 02:53:45 a.m. CDT, V M <vmin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > https://scroll.in/article/999497/reading-the-complex-reality-of-indias-jewish-communities-tiny-but-still-expanding > > In her aching, confessional *Book of Esther*, the author Esther David (her > original family name was Dandekar) describes attempting to “make aliyah” > via the Law of Return, which gives Jewish people from any part of the > world the right to migrate to Israel. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Darn VM! > You waltzed through a minefield with ease. Congrats! > > > The pictures in the article are invaluable as they show people with > typical Indian features i.e. people who have been thoroughly assimilated > over the decades. > > > In Tanzania, we have the Shirazi people who claim they are descendants of > settlers from Shiraz, Iran. The Shirazi look exactly like their neighbours > and rightly claim that they do not have to prove that they are Shirazi > because all the neighbours know who is Shirazi and who is not. Thankfully, > the Shirazi have no desire to "return" to Shiraz. > > > Using the Bible as a title deed is about the best idea I have come across. > Zionism could have been a great concept but once you decide to use arms to > get rid of the local population, you essentially are trading living in > peace in another land to living in a state of perpetual war in God's chosen > land. > > > Mervyn > > > > > > > > > >
