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'''Subbotnik Jews''' are a type of Israeli Jew with [[Karaimite]] origins but who have opted to go through an Orthodox Giyur Lechumra without turning their backs on their Karaimite Subbotnik heritage and have settled in Israel. They are distinct from Talmudist Subbotnik Gerei who reject their Subbotnik heritage in order to assimilate into Hassidic culture.
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'''Subbotnik Jews''' are a type of Israeli Jew with 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 movement. 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 as Pastors to the Karaimites after the Crimean Karaite Turks rejected the Karaimite Jewish religion.
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Subbotnik Jews are legally permitted to serve as a Beth Din to oversee the Subbotnik Noahites.
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Revision as of 12:00, 13 September 2020

Subbotnik Jews are a type of Israeli Jew with 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 movement. Subbotnik Jews follow Judah ben Tabbai's Yerushalmi Palestinian Minhag HaQaraim but are not Karaite Jews.

Subbotnik Jews are legally permitted to serve as a Beth Din to oversee the Subbotnik Noahites.