Today, Jews and non-Jews are unable to marry each other within the state of Israel, this is because Israel has no “civil marriage laws”. Jewish marriages are totally within the control of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Rabbinical Courts, and these Jewish state offices will not officiate interfaith marriages between Jews and non-Jews. Interfaith couples who wish to marry one another must leave Israel to obtain a marriage license and then re-enter the country as a married couple. Imagine if any other nation on earth did not allow Jews to marry non-Jews within their nation, this would be called hate, prejudice, inhumane and "anti-Semitic". Why is Israel allowed to practice this obvious bigotry, why is it ok for Israel to be anti-Gentile?
But why is a modern state enacting bans on interfaith marriage? Jewish law is the answer, and it is slowly returning to Israel. The Chief Rabbinate does not only control marriages but divorce and adoption laws as well (here), and these Jewish laws (called Halakha) come from the Jewish books of the Torah and the Talmud. According to Jewish holy and legal writings, when the Jews entered the land of Canaan to steal it from the pagan Canaanites, their leader and lawgiver Moses instructed the Jews to murder the Canaanites but forbade the Jews from intermarrying with them. Prior to this, Moses has a whole tribe of Moabite women murdered because Jewish soldiers slept with them and began worshiping their gods. According to the Talmud, Jews are not to marry “heathens” or “slaves” unless they convert to Judaism. The Torah provides further condemnations of mixed marriages in the book of Ezra where the children of mixed marriages are abandoned and mixed marriages are described as “racial pollution”
If this sort of logic were allowed to govern the state marital laws of any other nation it would be considered hate of the highest order, and it is hate of the highest order, but that is what the Jewish religion is all about, hatred for non-Jews.
Commands Against
Interfaith Marriage In Judaism
Interfaith Marriage In Judaism
TALMUD: JEWS MUST NOT MARRY “HEATHENS” OR “SLAVES” UNLESS THEY CONVERT
Will you suggest [that what is meant is]: Whether your father is told, ‘You may keep her’ or whether your father is told, ‘Let her go’. the All Merciful said, ‘She is thy sister’, to include his sister from a slave and a heathen! — Scripture stated, The father’s wife’s daughter, only she with whom your father can enter into marital relationship, but a sister from a slave or a heathen is excluded. And what ground is there for this? — It is logical to include those subject to kareth since generally their betrothal is valid. On the contrary! A slave and a heathen should have been included since on embracing the Jewish faith, betrothal with himself is also valid! — When any of these adopts the Jewish faith she becomes a different person. (Babylonian Talmud, Yebamoth 23a)
TORAH: MOSES INSTRUCTS THE JEWS TO MURDER THE CANAANITES AND STEAL THEIR LAND, BUT NOT TO INTERMARRY WITH THEM
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.[a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. (Deuteronomy 7:1-4)
TORAH: CHILDREN OF MIXED MARRIAGES MUST BE EXCLUDED FROM ISRAEL FOR 10 GENERATIONS
“An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever;” (Deuteronomy 23:3)
TORAH: MOSES HAS MOABITE WOMEN AND JEWISH MEN MURDERED BECAUSE BECAUSE THEY HAD SEX AND THE JEWS BEGAN TO WORSHIP MOABITE GODS
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, 2 who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. 3 So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the Lord’s anger burned against them. 4 The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the Lord’s fierce anger may turn away from Israel.” 5 So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.” 6 Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand 8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; 9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. 10 The Lord said to Moses, 11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. 12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. 13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.” (Numbers 25:1-18)
TORAH: EZRA HAS CHILDREN OF MIXED MARRIAGES ABANDONED
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing 3. Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. Ezra 10:2-3… (verse 44) All these had taken foreign wives; but they sent them away, both the women and their children. (Ezra 10:2-3, 44)
TORAH: EZRA DESCRIBES MIXED MARRIAGES AS “RACIAL POLLUTION”
But then the Jewish leaders came to me and said, “Many of the people of Israel, and even some of the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the other peoples living in the land. They have taken up the detestable practices of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites. For the men of Israel have married women from these people and have taken them as wives for their sons. So the holy race has become polluted by these mixed marriages. To make matters worse, the officials and leaders are some of the worst offenders.” (Ezra 9:1-2)
Jews & Non-Jews Cannot Marry Inside Israel
The Huffington Post
Israel Civil Marriage Ban Blocks
Those Not Considered Jewish From Wedding
Those Not Considered Jewish From Wedding
The Media Line | By Linda Gradstein Posted: 06/12/2013
A month ago, Rita Margulis and her fiancé Amit (as a career army officer he asked not to use his last name) got married at the Safari in Tel Aviv. There was a Reform rabbi and 450 guests. But according to the state of Israel, the wedding never happened.
That is because Margulis, who immigrated to Israel from Ukraine at age 4, is not Jewish according to Jewish law, because her mother is not Jewish. Jewish law states that only someone born of a Jewish mother or who had an Orthodox Jewish conversion is Jewish. And since there is no civil marriage in Israel, anyone who is not Jewish cannot marry another Jew in Israel.
Until her wedding, Margulis says it didn’t bother her much. She grew up in Israel and became a combat soldier. After her mandatory army service, she went to university and became an economist. She never seriously considered converting to Judaism, she says, and believed she should not have to.
“Getting married is a basic right that every citizen should have,” she told The Media Line. “I’ve become active in trying to get Israel to institute civil marriage.”
Israel is both a Jewish and democratic state. The ultra-Orthodox rabbinate controls all issues of personal status, including marriage and divorce. To get married in Israel to another Jew, you must prove you are Jewish. If that is impossible, as in Margulis’s case, you cannot get married.
Thousands of couples have taken advantage of a loophole in the law, in which they fly abroad, often to Cyprus, and have a wedding there. That civil wedding is then recognized by the State of Israel and the couple is listed as “married” in Israel.
Hiddush, an Israeli-American partnership for religious equality in Israel, has launched a campaign for civil marriage in Israel.
“The right to marry is one of those universally cherished civil liberties,” Uri Regev, CEO of Hiddush told The Media Line. “It is the one area in which Israel excluded itself from the international covenant of civil and political rights. The law adversely impacts the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens who cannot marry at all because of religious coercion and of millions who cannot have a marriage ceremony which fits their lifestyle and beliefs.”
Only Orthodox Rabbis may perform wedding ceremonies in Israel. More than 70 percent of American Jews define themselves as Reform or Conservative, although these movements have failed to make major inroads in Israel. Conversions done by Reform or Conservative rabbis are also not recognized in Israel.
The issue gained traction with the immigration of more than one million people from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. Israel’s Law of Return states that anyone with one Jewish grandparent is entitled to automatic citizenship in Israel, with all of the financial benefits that immigration entails. That classification is the same one the Nazis used during the Holocaust to determine who was Jewish.
Of the one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union, an estimated one-third, like Margulis, are not Jewish according to Jewish law. While many of them want to convert, only a few thousands have succeeded.
Regev says Hiddush is launching a campaign with American Jewish organizations to push for civil marriage in Israel. The timing is good. For the first time in decades, the ultra-Orthodox parties are not in Israel’s governing coalition.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid, whose Yesh Atid party was the big winner in the election, has repeatedly said he supports civil marriage in Israel.
"I am going to do everything in my power to make sure there will be civil marriages in Israel. The complete dominance of the Orthodox rabbis in Israel over divorces and marriages is an insult," Lapid told American Jewish leaders earlier this year.
A spokesman for the Rabbinate in Israel declined to comment. Yet in the past Orthodox leaders have said they will never allow civil marriage in Israel, and that it would split the Jewish people in two.
Proponents argue that civil marriage would solve another problem in Israel – that of husbands who blackmail or refuse to give their wives a “get”, a religious divorce. Without the “get,” women are unable to remarry. Hundreds of women are trapped in this situation and countless others have paid heavily for the “get.” A civil marriage would only necessitate a civil divorce.
Yet Regev says it will still be an uphill battle. As part of its conditions for joining the government, the Bayit Yehudi party headed by Naftali Bennett demanded and received a clause that any legislative change on religious issues requires the agreement of all coalition parties.
“That means they have veto power and they have already said they would not support civil marriage.”
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