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**Lillie_Steins** · 08-23-2009, 10:42 PM

proof even jews are

This ruling has nothing to do with racism; it's about the conflict between Orthodox and non-Orthodox conversions. The "race" of the mother is surely irrelevant; halachic Jewish status is the issue in question, an issue that badly needs to be resolved somehow for the good of all the Jewish community.

However, my first thought when I read this story is that surely the parents of the child would have been aware of the halachic status of their children when they decided on a Conservative/Masorti conversion for the mother. JFS is a good quality school, much better than local schools and I'm sure they'd want their child to go there. But attacking the wider Jewish community to achieve that goal is something I find reprehensible. If a Jewish school was important to them, I don't see why they didn't make an effort to have an Orthodox conversion.

Having said all that, JFS is not a "religious" school as far as I'm aware, in comparison to other Jewish schools, so it's entry policy was bound to cause problems like this. They should have been more forward thinking.

08-23-2009, 10:42 PM	#6
Lillie_Steins Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 4,508 Senior Member	proof even jews are This ruling has nothing to do with racism; it's about the conflict between Orthodox and non-Orthodox conversions. The "race" of the mother is surely irrelevant; halachic Jewish status is the issue in question, an issue that badly needs to be resolved somehow for the good of all the Jewish community. However, my first thought when I read this story is that surely the parents of the child would have been aware of the halachic status of their children when they decided on a Conservative/Masorti conversion for the mother. JFS is a good quality school, much better than local schools and I'm sure they'd want their child to go there. But attacking the wider Jewish community to achieve that goal is something I find reprehensible. If a Jewish school was important to them, I don't see why they didn't make an effort to have an Orthodox conversion. Having said all that, JFS is not a "religious" school as far as I'm aware, in comparison to other Jewish schools, so it's entry policy was bound to cause problems like this. They should have been more forward thinking.
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