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Some of what the Pittsburgh terror brings up for me
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 741856" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Thank you SWOT.</p><p></p><p>There is no real answer, SWOT. I ask myself this all of the time. First, I was a marginal Jew at the time I adopted my son, and I lacked both a community and Jewish learning.</p><p></p><p>I was making attempts to learn at an Orthodox congregation, but Orthodox and Conservative Rabbis (I spoke to them) would not accept my son as Jewish. To them he was a non-Jew even though I was his mother. And as a non-Jew he needed to go through conversion (at 22 months?) and be circumcised.</p><p></p><p>At the time although I could understand this intellectually I could not accept it emotionally and I felt my faith was rejecting me. I know I could have gone to find a reform congregation and they would have accepted us, but I both felt rejected and I did not feel an affinity to reform Judaism.</p><p></p><p>Where I am right now (the part of the faith) would have accepted my son and me, and I love it, but 30 years ago it was an emergent way of worshipping, and I did not know of it.</p><p></p><p>I regret all of the time that I did not raise my son as a Jew or indeed in any religion. I feel it was one of my biggest errors. But I did not know better.</p><p></p><p>I agree. The views are abhorrent, but this is my son.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 741856, member: 18958"] Thank you SWOT. There is no real answer, SWOT. I ask myself this all of the time. First, I was a marginal Jew at the time I adopted my son, and I lacked both a community and Jewish learning. I was making attempts to learn at an Orthodox congregation, but Orthodox and Conservative Rabbis (I spoke to them) would not accept my son as Jewish. To them he was a non-Jew even though I was his mother. And as a non-Jew he needed to go through conversion (at 22 months?) and be circumcised. At the time although I could understand this intellectually I could not accept it emotionally and I felt my faith was rejecting me. I know I could have gone to find a reform congregation and they would have accepted us, but I both felt rejected and I did not feel an affinity to reform Judaism. Where I am right now (the part of the faith) would have accepted my son and me, and I love it, but 30 years ago it was an emergent way of worshipping, and I did not know of it. I regret all of the time that I did not raise my son as a Jew or indeed in any religion. I feel it was one of my biggest errors. But I did not know better. I agree. The views are abhorrent, but this is my son. [/QUOTE]
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