There are many African Jewish communities that expressed a desire for Torah, for Judaism. However, Judaism does not proselytize. Its not a proselytizing religion. It is a way of life -folks used to encourage others to join, but not anymore.
So when these African communities express this desire, the radars of all the proselytizers catch it. Then swoops in all the Christians, all the Muslims, all the Hebrew Isrealites, all the Messianic Jews (more Christians). And then the community must face them and the lies ("oh, we're Jewish too, look Jesus is Jewish too. We'll show you how to be Jewish...") all the threats ("submit or die!") all the negative emotions ("well white folks don't like you!") thrown at them. The have to swim upstream to find the Jewish community that's not even reaching out to them! (And good for them for doing this, because at the end of the day its about knowledge, uniting against Amalek, coming closer to God, and living consiously).
What difficulty!
Great honor to those communities who pushed and arrived. My heart goes out to those who are still trying to get through all the static. At least
kulanu and
Shavei Israel are trying to help them by building synagogues, sending teachers, sending books, etc. And they need volunteers, y'all!
The added problem is that anyone who becomes Jewish has the "right of return" which means potentially if Israel's Rabbanut converts too many too soon, all those "many" could come to Israel by this law. I don't know if the country can physically handle that. (Some would happily translate that into racism). And then comes the real actual racism -some rabbis may not want to work with these communities for that reason.
So, what to do?
What to do?
What to do?
