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Conversion rates rise among Eastern Europeans
Kobi Nahshoni
Published: 22.02.11, 09:52
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1. Orthodox question thes while Gaddafi can help form a minyan?
Chris   (02.22.11)
Gaddafi is Jewish enough to help form a minyan (his mother is Jewish) yet there are converts such as these who display their fidelity to Judaism and the State of Israel are dismissed as "not Jewish enough"? Something's messed up.
2. This is great news..! welcome
(02.22.11)
3. R' Drukman's Jab Uncalled For
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (02.22.11)
The was no reason for R' Drukman to make unkind comments about Chareidim other than to speak Loshon Haroh and stir up hatred for fellow Jews. Not nice, Chaim. Besides that, he's wrong.
4. 1Gaddafi s mother Jewish?
ORA ,   Jerusalem   (02.22.11)
Your source ,please.
5. #4 its well known ...look it up on the web
rachel ,   usa   (02.22.11)
6. I thought Judaism only reluctantly accepts converts
Ben ,   USA   (02.22.11)
I wonder how many of those converts were told by Orthodox rabbis "Judaism only reluctantly accepts converts. You should investigate Islam. It's the only TRUE MONOTHEISM amongst gentiles". Or is that something only Orthodox rabbis in America flippantly say to potential converts? It's kind of the same as telling someone to take a long walk off a short pier, considering the current state of Islam in most of the world. Hence my bitterness.
7. Gaddafi
Hillel ,   Israel   (02.22.11)
Many Libyan Jews who arrived in Israel years ago say that his mother was a beautiful Jewish girl, who along with her sister, was kidnapped by a sheikh who married her. Many of them knew the family. Just think, if no other country will accept him, he can come here with his whole family as new immigrants with a lot of help and rights. Just what we need, right?!
8. 7 Hilel
ORA ,   Jerusalem   (02.22.11)
Israel is not a refuge for Jewish criminals.With or without money.
9. So I see Ora you did your research...
telavivit ,   Israel   (02.22.11)
.. and who said Israel is a refuge for Jewish criminals.With or without money? Cant you see what these people are getting at? If not please read the talkbacks again
10. Stalin
Ali Babashvilli ,   UK   (02.22.11)
Stalin was also one of ours with a Jewish mother!!!!!!
11. Gadaffi #4
Shayna Gezunt ,   Uk   (02.22.11)
Yes it's true! His grand mother was Jewish who converted and married a Libyan Sheik'she had a daughter Gadaffi's mother .This makes him halachically Jewish.Maybe he has some mishpoocha in Netanya????
12. 9 Cheer up,i did not mean you,telavivit.
ORA ,   Jerusalem   (02.23.11)
My TB was an answer to Hilel,who said that Gadafi could come as an new immigrant to Israel.
13. # 4 Ora
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (02.23.11)
1.He loves gefilte fish,2.his name,Mecharef Umegadef.
14. # 1 Gaddafi's mother Jewish ?
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (02.23.11)
So what ?,Torqemada's grand mother was Jewish,Ferdinand and Isabel,who expelled the Jews from spain,vere of Jewish descent,one thing for sure,Israel will not provide him with political asylum,concerning a minyan,i am all for it,a minyan should be formed so,his sons can say kadish after him,and the sooner,the better.
15. # 10 Stalin's mother ?
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (02.23.11)
Ali Baba ! what nonsense,his mother was a devoted christian she forced him to enter a seminary,to become a priest.
16. Ora obviously- as I had not made any comment here...DUH!
telavivit ,   Israel   (02.23.11)
17. Gospel anti-Judaism opposed to Judaizing
David Turner ,   RICHMOND   (02.23.11)
Lest we get carried away with our success at attracting a few Christian converts it should be recalled that the antisemitism behind the Holocaust emerged from 1700 years of Christian anti-Judaism born of Christian fear of precisely the attractiveness of Judaism to Christians, concern over such conversion. While the number represented in this article are insignificant overall, should there truly be a wave of such we can not only expect a nasty backlash from Christianity, Catholic as well as Protestant, and a resurgent secular antisemitism as well. So hold your enthusiasm in check!
18. what has always amused me about the conversion business is..
(02.24.11)
that when it comes to searching for the 10 lost tribes we have a burgeoning blooming business. and yet when it comes to genuine and sinere individuals who either wish to convert or actually do well then we start rechecking, actually rewriting the book! So which is it...is the memory of the 10 lost tribes who according to some live in the jungles of Latin America and Africa a stronger bond or is actually converting the real deal?!
19. Ben, Ben, Ben @#6 stop beating it...
Jewish Bambi Babe! ,   Jerusalem   (02.24.11)
You have already said you don't want to convert. So did you ever think it was possible that you came up against a really intelligent Rabbi who saw through your playful nature and decided to playfully sent you off to look at Islam? Clearly you haven't studied Judaism enough as you don't even know that part of a real and true conversion process is to roundly, profoundly and soundly reject the potential candidate to the conversion process. You were rejected deal with it by going and figuring out why! In the meantime enough with your moaning and groaning already!
20. Who cares where Gaddafi came from?!
(02.24.11)
It is all about what he is and how he behaves. He's a disgrace to the human race, he's a disgrace to Judaism (if he's Jewish) and he's a disgrace to real Islam!
21. 13 J.K. Sure.. . Non Kosher madfish
ORA ,   Jerusalem   (02.24.11)
Now he is possessed by one of those.
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