tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post5704666533189862204..comments2024-03-28T02:08:17.990+02:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Brain death & the intermarriage-conversion problemDaas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-85675201574609840342008-04-04T21:14:00.000+03:002008-04-04T21:14:00.000+03:00Each of the Orthodox Rabbis who have done conversi...Each of the Orthodox Rabbis who have done conversions to permit intermarriages think that it has been only the "two dozen" or a that they have personally done.<BR/><BR/>What American Orthodox Rabbis do not realize is that most of the 1000 members of the RCA have each done on average a "few" or a "few dozen" conversions to permit intermarriages. <BR/><BR/>And we can add to that the people who now live in Orthodox communities who are the offspring of women who had Conservative, Reform or no conversions and who became "Baalei Teshuva". <BR/><BR/>The intermarriage problem in the US has been going on since WWII when many Jewish servicemen brought home Gentile wives from overseas. And now it has been three generations of "blending" into the American Jewish community. <BR/><BR/> All of the sudden we find that in some shuls or schools as many as half of the children are not considered Jewish in Israel. <BR/><BR/>Then we add to this the general idea among even the Orthodox, and one need only to read Vos iz Neias or the Yeshiva World to see this, of accepting people as Jewish because they claim they are "anusim" or that they have been "converted" even though they are not recognized as Jews in Israel. <BR/><BR/>Without realizing it, we have many Orthodox shuls and yeshivas in the US whose memberships are by percentage, significantly not Jewish. This is true unfortunately in Lakewood, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and even in Brooklyn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com