Comments on: Two New Books on Conversion http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2010/02/04/two-new-books-on-conversion/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:08:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: tk http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2010/02/04/two-new-books-on-conversion/comment-page-1/#comment-2704 tk Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:17:36 +0000 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=2354#comment-2704 There is also a new volume Called Mishnas Hager by the son of R Menashe Klein a very nice surprisingly even handed take with an encyclopedic fashion on the subject. There is also a new volume Called Mishnas Hager by the son of R Menashe Klein a very nice surprisingly even handed take with an encyclopedic fashion on the subject.

]]> By: Harry Perkal http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2010/02/04/two-new-books-on-conversion/comment-page-1/#comment-2701 Harry Perkal Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:01:51 +0000 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=2354#comment-2701 To my mind the best book on conversion from a broadly Halachic and scholarly perspective is " Transforming Conversion" by Avi Sagi. In any case the issue of conversion in Isreal is now totally absurd. It is crazy that a country cannot have one standard who is a citizen ( and in this case a Jew). Isreal should get out of the business of religious coercion. If not for the politics, Isreal should decide on the broadest possible defintion of who is a Jew, and if the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform ( or other wings) of Judaism do not recognize each other that is their problem. At this time Isreal must be the only so called democratic state that Jews are not free to practice their religious beliefs or no beliefs. It is the height of absurdity that there is no civil marriage in Isreal. Harry To my mind the best book on conversion from a broadly Halachic and scholarly perspective is ” Transforming Conversion” by Avi Sagi. In any case the issue of conversion in Isreal is now totally absurd. It is crazy that a country cannot have one standard who is a citizen ( and in this case a Jew). Isreal should get out of the business of religious coercion. If not for the politics, Isreal should decide on the broadest possible defintion of who is a Jew, and if the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform ( or other wings) of Judaism do not recognize each other that is their problem. At this time Isreal must be the only so called democratic state that Jews are not free to practice their religious beliefs or no beliefs. It is the height of absurdity that there is no civil marriage in Isreal.

Harry

]]> By: Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2010/02/04/two-new-books-on-conversion/comment-page-1/#comment-2693 Menachem Mendel Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:25:01 +0000 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=2354#comment-2693 Menachem, I don't have either of them...yet. What were your impressions of Zera Yisrael? Menachem,

I don’t have either of them…yet. What were your impressions of Zera Yisrael?

]]> By: Menachem Butler http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2010/02/04/two-new-books-on-conversion/comment-page-1/#comment-2692 Menachem Butler Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:18:37 +0000 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=2354#comment-2692 glad that you're enjoying the volume!!! glad that you’re enjoying the volume!!!

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