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From: samet@sfmag.UUCP (A.I.Samet)
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Subject: Re: Can one be both a Jew and a Christian?
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 12:20:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 12:20:00 1985
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> From the response to the "Jews for Jesus",
> and considering way Israel's Law of Return is applied,
> I assume that a Jew who becomes baptized Christian
> is no longer considered to be a Jew.
> 
> If that is true, then I have a solution to the plight
> of the mamzorim:
> 
> First, become baptized Christian.
> Since Jewish laws don't apply to you, your special mamzor status disappears.
> Then seek out an Orthodox rabbi and convert back to Judaism.
> You will no longer be a mamzor, but rather a ger (is that the Hebrew
> word for "convert"?).
> 
> Why wait a thousand (?) generations?
> 
> 		Frank Silbermann
> 		University of North Carolina

It won't work.
The Law of Return has no effect on the halacha. Such a person is still
a Jew al pi din.