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Often, I end up working with people to
overcome the resentment before we even
begin talking about conversion:' he says.
Many confront the problem while pre-
paring for a key life-cycle event such as
marriage or a bar mitzvah. That can lead
to great emotional upset.
"Here's a person who sees himself
as Jewish, who grew up with all things
Jewish, and now at what should be the
happiest day of their lives, they find
themselves under question," Rabbi Siegel
says.
Rebecca Goldstein (not her real name)
had plenty of anger. Goldstein, 31, is still
seething from the rejection she felt as the
daughter of a non-Jewish mother when-
ever she stepped outside her Reform
community.
She first ran into it was when she was
19, when her Jewish boyfriend wouldn't
introduce her to his grandmother. She
experienced it again the year she spent in
Israel on a student program — Israelis
would ask if she was planning to convert.
"It was a weight I had to carry during
the entire program," Goldstein says. "I
felt the burden of having to prove myself
more than people 'born Jewish.'"
Goldstein converted while she was
pregnant — not because she wanted
to, but to spare her child what she went
through.
"I didn't want my daughter to
have to face that duality,' she says. "I con-
verted, but resented that I had to do
Jewish Issue
"This is a problem the Jewish commu-
nity has created for itself, and those of
us who can help have the responsibility
to do so," says Rabbi Carol Levitan, pro-
gram director of the Jewish Community
Center in Manhattan, referring to the
divide between those Jewish streams
that recognize patrilineal Jews and those
that do not. "When it's a person who
clearly identifies as Jewish and is knowl-
edgeable, I'm eager to make it happen
without making them jump through
hoops."
Some Conservative rabbis have come
up with new ceremonies to embrace
patrilineal converts in a loving, nonjudg-
mental manner.
Rabbi Sharon Brous, a Conservative
rabbi who leads the non-affiliated Ikar
community in Los Angeles, discovered
a couple of children in her first b'nai
mitzvah class two years ago who had
non-Jewish mothers but had been raised
as Jews.
Brous knew they would have to go to
the mikvah before their b'nai mitzvah.
To spare them the embarrassment of
being singled out, she decided that all
b'nai mitzvah candidates at Ikar would
immerse.
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April 19 * 2007
Answering
Israel's Critics
The Charge
Bassam Haddad, producer-direc-
tor of the film Arabs and Terrorism,
which is currently making the
rounds on American college
campuses, criticized Israel for
last summer's campaign against
Hezbollah. According to him, 35
percent of Lebanese are connected
to Hezbollah. Therefore, to remove
Hezbollah, he says, Israel would have
to remove 35 percent of the Lebanese
people.
The Answer
Hezbollah is identified by the U.S.
and a host of other countries as a
terrorist entity. While its political
arm successfully runs candidates for
the Lebanese parliament, it does not
support the Lebanese democracy as
it refuses to turn its arms over to the
Lebanese army. Its stated aim is to
turn Lebanon into an Islamic state.
— Allan Gale,
Jewish Community Relations Council
1244710
A Call For Justice
Visiting Rabbi Steve Gutow will
speak at Congregation T'chiyah on
Saturday, April 21, at 11:30 a.m., fol-
lowing a Shabbat service beginning
at 10 a.m.
Rabbi Gutow is the executive direc-
tor of the Jewish Council for Public
Affairs and an advocate for social
justice.
The rabbi will speak on "Judaism's
Call for a Just World: A Timeless
Mandate."
A 2003 graduate of the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
in Philadelphia, Rabbi Gutow served
as a student rabbi at T'chiyah in
2002-2003.
He returns to the congregation in
conjunction with its 30th anniver-
sary year.
Both the service and Rabbi
Gutow's talk will be held at the David
and Miriam Mondry Building at
15000 W. 10 Mile Road on the A.
Alfred Taubman Jewish Community
Campus in Oak Park.
The public is invited to attend.