Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!sher From: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Questions about conversion to Judaism Message-ID: <6375@rochester.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 22:15:39 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.6375 Posted: Sun Feb 10 22:15:39 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:46:34 EST References:<16@unc.UUCP> <286@mhuxi.UUCP> Reply-To: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher) Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 18 Keywords: Conversion Summary: In article <286@mhuxi.UUCP> dsg@mhuxi.UUCP (David S. Green) writes: >value. I hope that this can be seen. If someone says they are Jewish, >why should I have to wonder if somewhere in their family a conversion was done >not according to the Law? Reform conversions are invalid as far as I am >concerned. I don't understand this concern with whether someone's ancestors were converted according to form. I am not particularly observant but assuming that you met a woman who was a practising orthodox Jew (I assume that you would not date any other kind), and you find out that her grandfather had an illicit or problemical conversion. Since she is a practising Jew then she has already taken on the burden of Judaism. Isn't there a halachic fix for this kind of situation. In the very least one could perform a trivial conversion ceremony. But I am getting out of my depth. It still doesn't sound like a disaster. The technical status of your ancestors should not determine whether you are an orthodox Jew. Sorry for this rather incoherent article. -David Sher