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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not at my place of worship.[/quote]

Curious if you are at a Reform shul? I must admit that seeing a person of color at my Conservative shul would raise a couple eyebrows -- in surprise, not dismay. And everyone would quickly get over it and welcome him or her. But when you see old white guy after old white guy walk in the door, a black or Asian person would stand out.[/quote]

I am in a Reform Shul.  We probably are about 20% atypical families, mostly mixed marriages (about 1/2 the congregation is mixed).  [/quote]
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At our current Reform shul (not in the DC area), one of the board members is Asian, and no raised eyebrows. Lots of mixed families and several "minority" families.

In the Reform shul where I grew up, there were many fewer non-white people, but that was 30 years ago, and I have a feeling that things have changed for the more-diverse. One of the groundbreakers was an AA convert, who grew up in my mom's Orthodox neighborhood in the 1950s as the "shobbos goy" (non-Jewish person who turns lights on and off, etc, during the Sabbath for some very observant Jews). Judaism intrigued him, and he converted to Reform Judaism when he grew up, joining the Reform congregation where my dad grew up. (My mom also left Orthodoxy and I was raised VERY liberal Reform. We don't agree with a lot of Orthodox practices for our family.) This man is one of the most knowledgeable Jews I know, and while he might have raised some eyebrows at first--I don't know because I wasn't born yet--he is a leader in the congregation. At one point, he was the brotherhood president. Since then, membership has become more diverse, though I would say it's probably still 70% older Ashkenazim. [/quote]

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