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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've noticed that Judaism is the only Abrahamic faith that doesn't proselytize. I think that's cool. Why is it that Judaism doesn't proselytize though?[/quote]

There are probably a lot of reasons for this but a big one is that Jews were persecuted for centuries and proselytizing would have been asking for trouble. Jews were just hoping for live and let live.

An Orthodox temple will accept converts (assuming you are sincere) (although they may not accept conversion performed by a non-Orthodox rabbi).  [/quote]

There are no Orthodox "temples."  A temple is a holy place. There have only been three Orthodox temples, the first and the second temples in Jerusalem and the temple in Elephantine. The Reform reject this idea and say that any building devoted to Jewish prayer is a temple. [/quote]

1. Presumably the Temple in Elephantine was in violation of Deuteronomy as well.   2. Its kind of anachronistic to refer to the Beit Hamikdash harishon or hasheni as "orthodox" since the term originated in the 19th century.     3. As a side note, in part of the northeastern US some conservative synagogues used (and still use) the term "temple" even though  (unlike Reform) they pray for the restoration of the ancient temple in Jerusalem[/quote]

Temple is used a lot in the South. I grew up in Baltimore hearing it from Jews who had moved North. I never heard the term shul until college.[/quote]

I don't think I have heard of a Conservative synagogue in the South that had "Temple" in its official name (as happens in NYC and New England).   I think people down there use Temple generically because so many of the Synagogues are Reform.

Shul is Yiddish, and so is used in places where Yiddish speaking immigrants set the culture - and its more common the more traditional the community is.  [/quote]

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