The Israeli organisation Yad Le’Achim has been helping Arab women with Jewish ancestry return to their roots. Arutz Sheva reports:
Arab women (Flash 90)
Yad L’achim announced last week that in January they had several cases in which Arab women turned to the organization for help and thereby discovered their Jewish identities.
These women had lived their entire lives as Arabs, grew up in Arab villages and were taught Arab beliefs, lived as devout Muslims, and never suspected themselves to be Jewish.
21-year-old L., 40-year-old S., and 30-year-old A. were born to a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, and did not know their mother’s true identity. Each woman approached Yad L’achim separately and of her own accord.
“It’s hard to discover when you’re already older that you have a different identity,” a Yad L’achim spokesperson said. “These kinds of situations need to be dealt with differently. This month, we helped three different women deal with something completely different than what we’re used to. These women are ‘meeting’ their new identities for the first time.
“A. was born and raised in the central Arab city of Qalansuwa. She is a Muslim through and through. A month ago, a relative told her, ‘Your mother is Jewish.’
“A. did not give up, and did an investigation which proved the relative’s claim to be true. Her entire world was shaken up.”
“When I found out, completely by coincidence, that I was a Jew, I didn’t know what to do,” A. said. “I began to quietly learn about Judaism, and people told me that an organization called Yad L’achim could help me return to the Jewish people.
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