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Failed Messiah
Jeffrey Shulevitz, husband of Emma Shulevitz, a victim of mikva peeping tom voyeur Rabbi Barry Freundel, writes:
The Deeper Issues
The topic of conversions is a very deeply heated topic in the Jewish world. Growing up in New York City I knew this. However, what I did not know was to what a major extent this was until this past week. There is a famous saying, “you live and you learn”. What I have discovered has forced me come out of my silence. I have never written an article as I have always been a very private person. However, with what I have seen from debates on this topic I feel as if I have an obligation to speak out, so here I am.
Last year I relocated from New York City to Washington, D.C, the nation’s capital. As D.C is a capital, so is New York City – the capital of the jewish people in the United States. There are approximately 1.1 million jewish people in New York City. Roughly half of that jewish population lives in Brooklyn. There are roughly 40,000 Syrians jews who do not believe that a person born with a non-jewish mom can ever become jewish. This has been their teachings passed down from generation to generation and this has become their tradition.
Sadly, there are many others living in the Brooklyn community who share the same ideology on conversions. In researching this subject matter I asked someone living in Brooklyn the question on how converts are treated in Brooklyn? Here was her response. “From what I’ve seen and heard it’s disgraceful to have a convert marry in to your family”.
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