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<\/a>Ethiopian Jews celebrate their first Passover in Israel – Photo by Ouria Tadmor<\/p><\/div>America has been called \u201cthe melting pot\u201d where newcomers meet and seek new lives. A unique culture has resulted with us here by this mixing. New languages \u201cSpanglish\u201d, \u201cPort ingles\u201d and others which meld English into new tongues never heard before come to life. Colors and clothing styles mix and are adopted by others from other cultures. Foods combine and new tastes develop from them that take on a life of their own. Still, too many nations today seem to have mixed themselves into such a state of affairs that the people find themselves seeking their identity. Too many have become so individualistic that they feel rootless. Israel is about a people returning to their roots and to the Land promised to them in solid form and in spirit. Christian travelers, pilgrims and tourists can feel that emotion as they arrive in a place that echoes and shines with a sense of Return. Where other nations have become a multitude of mixed ideas, tastes and tongues, often in conflict, Israel is more like a festival.<\/p>\n
Where else in the world can a nation as small as Israel contain a world in itself? The Law of Return has opened the doors and invited the Exiles to come home. And return is exactly what they are doing. When it was a mere two years in existence as a State, the Knesset of Israel passed a law that gave citizenship to every Jew, no matter from where they came, in the Homeland of Israel. After the last stone had been overturned in 135 CE by the vengeful Roman Army Jerusalem and even Judea were blotted out in the eyes of the so-called civilized world. The arenas and slave markets of Rome were supplied with those who survived Judea\u2019s last revolt and the escapees from the last Roman campaign in what is now Israel dispersed into the world. Their descendants saw continual Inquisitions, persecutions, pogroms and a Holocaust. In 1948 their descendants re-established a State and named it Israel.<\/p>\n