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I agree with FailedMessiah.com, though the blogger for "Failed Messiah" himself says:
"All converts need is a true desire to be Jewish and a willingness to learn Jewish law and custom. Katia and Alex have met both of those requirements very well. But there's something else this patronizing hack doesn't understand.
"There's a halakhic category called "zera yisrael," non-Jews descended from Jews. Jews have no obligation to encourage or make easy the conversions of non-Jews, but we do for Zera Yisrael. The bar for reentry to the religious body called the Jewish people is lower than the bar for the first time entry of other converts. That's because they already are in some sense a part of the national component of this religious body, while the others are not. Think of it as a cross between a type of reclamation project and a legacy admission to an Ivy League college.
"Katia and Alex put their lives on the line to defend Jews, many of whom shirk their own duty to serve and instead sit in yeshivas until late middle age, drinking coffee, talking politics and, occasionally, learning a little Gemara."
Katia and Alex are not Non Jews. A Yid iz a Yid; un a goy iz a goy, un a zera Yisroel iz a Yid vayl er oder zi iz a zera Yisroel, amer shel Yisroel.
"All converts need is a true desire to be Jewish and a willingness to learn Jewish law and custom. Katia and Alex have met both of those requirements very well. But there's something else this patronizing hack doesn't understand.
"There's a halakhic category called "zera yisrael," non-Jews descended from Jews. Jews have no obligation to encourage or make easy the conversions of non-Jews, but we do for Zera Yisrael. The bar for reentry to the religious body called the Jewish people is lower than the bar for the first time entry of other converts. That's because they already are in some sense a part of the national component of this religious body, while the others are not. Think of it as a cross between a type of reclamation project and a legacy admission to an Ivy League college.
"Katia and Alex put their lives on the line to defend Jews, many of whom shirk their own duty to serve and instead sit in yeshivas until late middle age, drinking coffee, talking politics and, occasionally, learning a little Gemara."
Katia and Alex are not Non Jews. A Yid iz a Yid; un a goy iz a goy, un a zera Yisroel iz a Yid vayl er oder zi iz a zera Yisroel, amer shel Yisroel.
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