{"id":31405,"date":"2024-01-11T14:51:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?page_id=31405"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:51:03","slug":"unit-9-recognizing-jewishness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/unit-9-recognizing-jewishness\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 9: RECOGNIZING JEWISHNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/the-beta-israel-curriculum-table-of-contents\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">MY FAMILY<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/the-beta-israel-curriculum-table-of-contents\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">THE BETA ISRAEL CURRICULUM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 440px;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30932 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Title-Slide-Curriculum-12.23-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Title-Slide-Curriculum-12.23-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/Title-Slide-Curriculum-12.23.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RECOGNIZING JEWISHNESS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Teachers should now proceed to explain:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beyond contending with the loss of the Holy Temple, the Beta Israel faced a more dire existential crisis: Religious leaders in Israel were still debating their Jewish status \u2013 and many cast doubt, despite the 1973 ruling of Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Israel\u2019s religious leaders therefore required the Beta Israel to \u201cundergo <em>giyyur le-humrah <\/em>[meaning] precautionary conversions, requiring circumcision, immersion in a <em>mikveh <\/em>(i.e., ritual pool of water), and acceptance of the <em>mitzvot <\/em>(commandments), in order to remove all doubts about the status of the Ethiopian Jews.\u201d<sup>151<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For so many members of the Beta Israel this \u201cprecautionary conversion\u201d was a profound insult: to themselves personally, to their ancestors, and to the very traditions that sustained their Judaism for more than 2,500 years. The directive made it clear that\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #231f20;\">although the Beta Israel had been considered Jews while living in Ethiopia, now that they were in the State of Israel, their Jewishness was no longer recognized.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>151 Ibid, 71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY FAMILY THE BETA ISRAEL CURRICULUM RECOGNIZING JEWISHNESS \u00a0Teachers should now proceed to explain: Beyond contending with the loss of the Holy Temple, the Beta Israel faced a more dire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30932,"parent":0,"menu_order":69,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31405","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}