Two interesting pieces in The Times give pause for thought. They make you think, ‘What is a Jew’ and ‘What is an Israeli’. The first is a blog by Ruth Gledhill about the Jewish antecedents of the composer, Felix Mendelssohn . His music was dismissed as ‘Jewish’ by the Nazis, even though he himself was not. In her brilliant fashion, Ruth links this conundrum to the recent refusal of a Jewish school in London to allow entry to a prospective pupil who was not regarded as Jewish in Jewish l

Source:To be an Israeli, or not to be a Jew - that is the question