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2006-05-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Goering relative 'plans to convert to Judaism'

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-17 11:25|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dang, p. 3 please. My bad.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-17 11:29|| 2006-05-17 11:29|| Front Page Top

#2 There are actually quite a few stories like this, have been for decades. Not so much a desire to join the "winners", as that Cambridge ass suggested (how hard did the reporter have to look to find him, I wonder? And how revealing that he describes Jews and Israel in such terms), as to reject the evil they saw in their relatives and cleave to the Good. And as such families are inveritably described as faithful Churchgoers, Christianity is poisoned for them. They tend to marry and have large families, unlike the majority of Germans and unlike most European Jews, and believe passionately in the necessity of Israel. Like most of the converts to Judaism that I have met, and for some reason the congregation I belong to is chock full of them, they are an asset to the faith they have chosen -- three I know of personally having gone on to become rabbis. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-17 12:36|| 2006-05-17 12:36|| Front Page Top

#3 interesting kerfuffle going on in the Orthodox world on conversions

The Israeli rabbinute is only automatically accepting the conversion documents of about 40-50 American Rabbis (anyone else, including people who converted with several hundred other American orthodox rabbis - including some black hatters, has to either reconvert or persuade the presiding Israeli rabbi).

The issue was observance and it was possibly trigger by a big increase in the number of conversions performed by the IDF (from about 50 4 years ago to about 1000 last year). The rabbanut hasn't decided which IDF conversions to automatically accept.

A blogging orthodox rabbi who is following this (and who is ticked off about it) is at: http://adderabbi.blogspot.com/

Posted by mhw 2006-05-17 16:41|| 2006-05-17 16:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Matthias Goering, whose great-great-uncle was Hermann's great- uncle...

Not really much of a relative.

Posted by Penguin 2006-05-17 16:50|| 2006-05-17 16:50|| Front Page Top

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