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Yea you convert but you must be with the congregation for a full year. They are starting to relax the laws for Sephardi's so it may even be less now. Nfesh Nnefesh usually has pretty good info and help. Anyone who is a Jew (including reform Jews) is eligible . You need no actual Jewish heritage. You can also ease into the process through acceptance to a Kibbutz where they can aid in the process alongside groups like Nfesh.
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Please stop making stuff up. There is no difference in Israel's eyes between Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Temani (etc) immigrants assuming they satisfy the following conditions:
1) Ethnically Jewish, in that they are 1/4 or more Jewish - one of their grandparents (minimum) needs to be a halakhic Jew OR they themselves need to be a convert to a mainstream Jewish denomination - specifically, Orthodox, Masorti, or Reform. Once you have completed that process, you are eligible for aliyah. Conversion takes years, though.
2) If 1) is satisfied, whilst they do not need to be observant, they cannot have converted to another religion, even if they are fully Jewish, as this renders them ineligible
It goes without saying that Messianic 'Jews' do not qualify.
In practise, however, the Israelis are often reticent to recognise foreign conversions and there are many instances of them deciding that individuals are or were gentiles, despite having raised practising Jewish families, who are then suddenly classified as goyim.
On the other hand, if you are 25% Jewish and you choose to immigrate, you can bring along your spouse and children, even if they are non-Jewish. Thus, many 1/8 Jewish ex-soviets migrated in the 90s.
Converting under the auspices of a Sephardic beit din will not make things any faster for you.
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You are misreading everything I am saying. I am Not saying they discriminate, but there are a lot of people of Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi descent that do not qualify as they have been disconnected from congregations for a long time. There are tons of congregations springing up in South America supported by Israeli groups. I am not saying being Sephardi will get you anywhere faster, what I am saying is the Israeli system is becoming more lax over time. You are correct, if you go there as a reform convert you are going to maybe have some stigma attached and have to take further steps to even get married, I am just talking the minimum for getting there. I have talked to representatives from the organization I mentioned before, they said 1 year and of course some other stuff alongside, but that is the information they gave me in regards to conversion.
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There are like, 12-13 million of us kicking around.
In the ultra-Orthodox community, your yichus is quite important, and that includes not being a convert or the child of converts (or the child of divorced parents, reformniks, etc). In the regular community it's not so important. One of Ariel Sharon's parents was a Subbotnik (ethnic Russian judaiser) and no one cared, obviously.
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I would say the issue is perhaps with how you're expressing yourself. To be clear:
1) Obviously, people who are 1/128 Sephardic or whatever do not count as Jews. Being 1/8, 1/16, 1/256 Jewish is not strictly speaking interesting to the Jewish community, although if it's your direct maternal line there is an interesting halakhic question to be raised, particularly if it's within 3 generations, and of course, you are still 'zera yisra'el,' which constitutes a halakhically defined group, but not Jews.
2) There are several missionary groups that seek to convert 'bnei anusim' to Judaism, many of which focus on South America in the belief that 1/3 of you are 1/128 Sephardic or more. Most Jews view these missionary groups as weirdos, but if you convert, you convert.
3) It doesn't matter whether or not you're 1/128 Sephardic in the end, it's fairly meaningless. You could live your entire life as a Catholic or whatever and that would be that. Or you could convert to Judaism. Of course, so could a gentile with 0 Jewish heritage. Conversion is easier for people with recent Jewish heritage, particularly a living ancestor, but if anyone's making things easier for you because your great x 6 grandparent might have been a marrano, that's probably a good reason to invalidate the process.
TL;DR: you said 'things are getting easier for Sephardim' referring to bnei anusim.
a) Bnei Anusim are not Sephardim, they are Bnei Anusim
b) Things are exactly the same for them as for any other non-Jew
c) I guarantee you the state of Israel will not change its criteria for aliyah. It will do what it does now: foment discord amongst diasporic populations to encourage actual Jews to migrate - particulary (currently) focusing on France and Ukraine.
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Palestinian Christians are ironically the closest people who are genetically the closest to the ancient Israelites along with the Samaritans and so on. Here's my G25 results:
Fit 1.1002
Levant_Canaanite_MBA: 63.33
IRN_Seh_Gabi_C: 14.17
Mozabite: 13.33
RUS_Afanasievo: 9.17
Your oracle
1. Lebanese_Druze@3.1980
2. Lebanese_Muslim@3.2969
3. Syrian_Jew@3.6910
4. Palestinian@3.7544
5. Druze@3.8065
6. Lebanese_Christian@4.0344
7. Samaritan@4.7880
8. Iraq_Jew@4.8028
9. Libyan_Jew@4.8614
10. Tunisian_Jew@4.9693
11. BedouinA@5.1962(I am pretty sure this Bedouin sample is mixed with a Levantine person)
12. Iranian_Jew@5.2384
13. Cypriot@5.5206
14. Georgian_Jew@5.5470
15. Romaniote_Jew@5.6177
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20. Italian_Jew@6.5482
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24. Turkish_Trabzon@7.5902
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27. Yemenite_Amran@7.8622
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29. Greek_Trabzon@7.9647
30. Turkish_Adana@8.1928
31. Iranian_Lor@8.1945
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33. Sicilian_East@8.4193
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39. Yemenite_Dhamar@9.2907
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I could become one but I'm afraid my parents would kick me out of the house if I did that, rofl. I accepted Jesus as my lord and savior though..but theoretically speaking, I would be a full blooded Jew If I converted to Judaism, no?
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