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Thread ID: 7793 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-07-02
2003-07-02 19:14 | User Profile
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[In Adar II, 5703 (1943) HaRav Yonah Mertzbach zt'l published the following article in the chareidi publication HaDerech, dealing with the disastrous halachic problems created by the aliya from Europe. This immigration included people disbarred from Jewish marriage, as well as bogus converts to Judaism who threatened to mix with the general populace in the Holy Land. Because of judicial decisions concerning fictitious conversions and recognition of the Reform Movement's activities, and the general problems of bogus conversion among Reform, Conservative and Orthodox rabbonim, this article has renewed relevance today.]
There are at least two sides to every story worth telling. While some only like to gloom and doom about the Jews, I believe that in many ways the Jews have had to give up being Jews in order to "make the world safe for Jewry." It's an interesting paradox, isn't it? From what I understand, even the orthodox ceremony resembles the Catholic mass more than that of the original Hebrews. They have had to become what they hated the most, quite an irony if you ask me.
2003-07-02 19:31 | User Profile
Hehehe, then again:
Anthropological Shabbat
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**Rina is a grown-up.
I couldn't stop thinking that. Sitting at Rina and Steve's Shabbat table, there was no way Rick had any idea that they disapproved of me dating a non-Jewish guy.
After we'd run into them at the basketball game in the park, Rina called and asked, straight out, why I hadn't told her I was dating someone. She guessed why.
"Aren't you going to yell at me or something?" I asked.
"No."
"You're not? You mean, you're okay with it?"
"Of course I am not okay with it," she said. "But obviously you're not either, or you would have told me about him. And I doubt I can really add anything new."
Oh, I could have deflected guilt, but this was a tactic I hadn't expected. I ended up telling her that Rick wanted to come for Shabbat dinner. After conferring with Steve, she said that we were welcome but that I shouldn't think that they in any way.**