Reply to Converting to Judaism - anyone willing to share their experience?

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "Converting to Judaism - anyone willing to share their experience?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We've had three people in our family convert. Two "converted too far" and wanted to make their spouses be more religious than they wanted to be, and those two ended in divorce.

The one who did not do that went to conversion classes (for a year? 18 months?) weekly, and is not kosher, but does light candles and have challah on Friday nights, and the older kid goes to Hebrew School once a week. They don't go to temple ([b]right now it's not safe[/b], but when it was they didn't go regularly either - maybe twice a year). [/quote]

Where do they live where it's not safe to go to shul?[/quote]

A major city in the country where the temple is under construction so all classes and services have been moved to, ironically, a nearby church, which doesn't have the same level of security as the temple's property. [/quote]
A major city probably has multiple synagogues for them to try, if they feel unsafe in the church their synagogue is renting. They could also have a conversation with their synagogue leadership about the security measures in place at the church. Sounds like, since they never went much anyway, the security concerns are just an excuse for them to go even less.[/quote]

Shame on you! What the hell is wrong with you? Not all cities have a lot of temples. Churches are not persecuted nearly as often as temples. People are not killed for being Christian nearly as often as people are for being jewish. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics