Refugees and rabbis

02.04.2012                      10.Nissan. 5772

Jüdische Welt:

Refugees and rabbis

Issue of how to deal with increasing number of refugees, illegal immigrants rouses spiritual leaders to take to their pulpits.

The decision last week by the Jerusalem District Court to issue an injunction postponing the deportation of approximately 1,000 South Sudanese from Israel until at least April 15 has brought the vexed issue of illegal immigration back to the national agenda.
The sensitive problem of how to deal with the ever-increasing number of refugees and illegal immigrants arriving in Israel has, as with so many concerns, roused the country’s spiritual leaders to take to their pulpits to proffer a religious perspective on the issue….