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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank yo for answering all these questions. I have one: How do you (or would you) treat an adopted child? especially one where his or her birth-parents are unknown. Would that child not be considered jewish until he or she converted themselves or does your faith allow the child to automatically be jewish if the adoptive mother is jewish?[/quote] I know a number of people who have adopted non-jewish children. If you dont know the parents (i.e. closed adoptions), I am pretty sure the preference is to adopt a non-jewish child over a jewish child to prevent the possibility of an incestuous relationship later on, i.e. that child unknowingly meets another child that he/she happens to be related to. If you know the parents, that is not a problem. Otherwise, the child is generally converted at the time of the adoption and then upon Bar/Bat Mitzvah age, they give the child the opportunity to affirm the conversion. [/quote]
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