Q&A: The Rabbinate
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The Rabbinate
Question
A friend asked me: we’re a group of several friends, and one of our good friends has a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother, so he is considered a non-Jew. He’s asking: how can it be that our friend served in the IDF, risked his life for the state, pays taxes, and yet the state does not let him get married here and receive the rights that a married couple has?
What do you think?
Answer
What’s the question? How does the state not allow him to? Through religious legislation. I assume you’re asking whether that’s justified. Clearly not. Even aside from the fact that he risked his life. A citizen in a democratic state is entitled to marry as he understands and wants, not according to what the scoundrels in the Chief Rabbinate want.