Thing is, I am irate about the way the Israeli rabbinate has handled the issue of the Ethiopian minhag, and we might have some common ground to discover there, if it wasn’t for the rest of the bloody thread.

BTW, I think when our friend says ‘they were told they were Jews’, he is not saying they didn’t think so before, but accusing the Israeli government of perfidy in that they permitted the Beta Israel to make aliyah, but didn’t somehow prevent the subsequent fights over religious status.

Once again, a fascinating and arguable topic in a thread so heavily tainted I can’t see much point in keeping it up.

It was about the point we hit ‘European colonialism’ that I gave up. The ground just won’t hold still under my feet.