'''Subbotnik Jews''' are a type of Israeli Jew with [[Karaimite Jew]]ish Noahite Subbotnik origins but who have opted to go through an Orthodox Giyur Lechumra without turning their backs on their Subbotnik heritage and have settled in Israel. They are distinct from Talmudist Subbotnik Gerei who reject their Subbotnik heritage in order to assimilate into one or another specific Hassidic culturemovement. Subbotnik Jews follow Judah ben Tabbai's Yerushalmi Palestinian Minhag HaQaraim but are not Karaite Jews.
Subbotnik Jews are sometimes called Karaimite Jews or Russian Karaims. They replaced the Crimean Karaite Turks legally permitted to serve as Pastors a Beth Din to oversee the Karaimites after the Crimean Karaite Turks were secularizedSubbotnik Noahites. [[Category:Tosafists Approach]]
