tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post7516678723761911351..comments2024-03-29T12:21:24.976+03:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Article requested by Jewish PressDaas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-79467033606885382422007-12-14T18:11:00.000+02:002007-12-14T18:11:00.000+02:00As a secular-raised Jew (not frum) married to a go...As a secular-raised Jew (not frum) married to a goya undergoing conversion via the EJF, I must tell you from the bottom of my hear to please drop dead.<BR/><BR/>It's because of Jews like you that 85% of our people want nothing to do with Hashem, Torah & Mitzvot.<BR/><BR/>May the Aybishter see fit to show you the errors of your close-minded ways as painlessly as possible, for your own sake. You are committing the worst of aviras. May Hashem show you mercy when He asks you why you were responsible for so many possible frum Jews being thrown back into the secular world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-27311297136215449942007-12-06T16:08:00.000+02:002007-12-06T16:08:00.000+02:00Thank you for this exceptionally well written arti...Thank you for this exceptionally well written article, I hope that the Jewish Press will print it. <BR/><BR/>Personally, I am obsessed with the expensive menu at the Oxnard retreat because I cannot help but contrast the luxurious dishes served to proselytize Gentiles at a posh resort to the needs of the many hungry Jewish children in Israel and the US. <BR/><BR/>I also cannot help but contrast the expensive accomodations at EJF's luxurious conferences to the 1200 name long waiting list for the Ben Gamla Charter School in FL.<BR/> <BR/>I don't think it is unfair to say that the parents who are moving to the district are doing so because they cannot afford Day School tuition but desperately want at least some sort of Hebrew education for their children. It should be noted that the majority of the 400 children who already attend the school are from observant Jewish homes. <BR/><BR/>And yet, at least in South Florida day schools, a sizable percentage of both seats and tuition assistance continues to be given to Gentile children with biological Jewish fathers, in hopes that they will grow up to convert. <BR/><BR/>I have been tracking this for the past generation. Few of the Gentile students at these day schools actually complete a halachic conversion. They simply self identify as Jews and have the education and social contacts to pull it off. <BR/><BR/>Often the families will switch schools or move and enter the next school stating that the mother is a born Jew. Why not? The man who chooses to intermarry (and it IS always a willing choice) has already committed a most serious crime against G-d and the Jewish people, so WHY NOT lie on the yeshiva admission form? <BR/><BR/> In this way the policy of admitting Gentiles to Jewish schools does nothing but cause MORE intermarriage. When a young man or woman is presented for a shiddach and he/she is yeshiva educated, few families will check to find out if the person is even Jewish!!!<BR/><BR/>Here in South Florida, I personally know of several yeshiva educated Gentiles who NEVER converted, who work as Rabbis, Sofrim, Mashgichim, teachers or who are married to Rabbis or the children of Rabbis. I also know of several marriages that have been annulled during the week of Sheva Brachot when it was discovered that one or the other of the couple was not Jewish!!!<BR/><BR/>In the course of investigating potential shidduchim for my own children, no less than HALF of the those who have been presented to us by well meaning Rabbis and shadchanim have been GENTILES!!! My friends and relatives around the US have told me the same. <BR/><BR/>I KNOW this sounds CRAZY. If anyone would have told me 20 years ago that when my children would be looking for shidduchim HALF of the potential shidduchim presented for them by Rabbis and shadchanim would be yeshiva educated GOYIM I would have also thought that was crazy. <BR/><BR/>But,unfortunately, it is not only CRAZY but it is TRUE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com