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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Ethiopian Jews, Racist Ultra-Orthodox, and "Who is a Rabbi?"
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 14:00:47 EST
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    In response to the articles about having more or less religious
 guidelines for conversion, and in response to the quote at the end here
 I have but one statement. Most Jews do not date non Jews for the purposse
e
 of intermarrying. They go out just to have fun and then the relationship
 gets too strong and cannot be broken. So too with the scenario in the
 original article by Mr. Saal. If I were to go out with a girl who claimed
 to be Jewish and after a while I decided t marry her and only then found 
 out that her conversion might be suspect, it would probably be too late to
 do anything. Therefore advocating a more religious set of guidelines is
 preferable because then everyone would be satisfied.

   Just as a side point. Why would a person want to convert to reform 
 Judaism. What is it any different that non Judaism. In the reform brand
 there is very little observance of anything except maybe going to temple,
 and if so why not remain non Jewish and go to church?

				Eliyahu Teitz.



> As for your scenario, if the genealogy and/or religious pedigree is of
> such great importance to the prosopective spouse, what's to stop
> appropriate inquiries before marriage?
>