Is It Jewish If It is Intermarried?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks glowingly about his 23 year-old son Yair’s relationship with a 25 yea-old Norwegian girl.
The relationship between Yair and Sandra Leikanger went viral. Pictures of the couple in Norway over the summer on Leikanger’s Facebook page had to be restricted after the Norwegian press got hold of the story.
Lehava, a Jewish group opposed to assimilation, is calling on Netanyahu to step in, “Your father Benzion was a Jew and a Zionist has many rights that natural sons of Jews value. It’s hard to believe that assimilation will enter through the front door of your house. Your son’s actions and implications are far, far from both the family and national aspect. His children and your grandchildren will not be Jewish, not on the national level of the son of the Prime Minister of Israel.” What kind of example is this for the son of the Prime Minister of the Jewish State—-which invests millions in preventing assimilation abroad—-to have assimilation occur in his own house? Your father is turning in his grave over his son’s actions, allowing his legacy to die out through his grandchildren because of a marriage to a non-Jew.”