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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.
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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