RE: Jewish music performance series/take1

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

I don't know what you call Orthodox or how really Orthodox this family was, 
but if they are really Orthodox, they would have to accept him.  Converts 
are expected to prove that they really meant it and actually abide by all 
the stringent rules to be accepted.  They don't accept converting for the 
sake of love so readily as they would if they felt the person converts 
because they believe and accept torah on its own terms - a very demanding 
kind of life.   If he would clearly live as an Orthodox Jew for some years, 
I am sure that they would have accepted him.   You know that not everyone 
who gets an Orthodox conversion stays Orthodox, and the parents must have 
known that.  It's a lifestyle that is sometimes too hard to maintain, 
especially if one was raised Reform.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything too


Reyzl


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From:  Marvin [SMTP:physchem (at) earthlink(dot)net]
Sent:  Friday, September 24, 1999 4:57 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Re: Jewish music performance series/take1

----- Original Message -----
From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: Jewish music performance series/take1


>
> The fact is that if someone goes through a halakhic conversion, the
> Orthodox are the ones who accept converts as legitimate Jews.  It's the
> Conservative, Reform and generally untrained traditionalist who still 
hold
> converts as not quite legitimate Jews.


That is absolutely false, in my experience.  Surely, you can find 
individual
Jews who are skeptical of  converts, but please don't generalize.

I know of a person who was born to a non-Jewish mother and raised as a
Reform Jew.  He fell in love with an Orthodox woman whose family didn't
recognize him as a Jew.  He went through the Orthodox conversion, but the
woman's family still wouldn't permit the marriage.







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