The second advantage of your study taking a year or more is that you have adequate time to determine whether you really do want to become Jewish. No rabbi expects you to commit to converting at the outset. Rather, rabbis want to study with you and wait to see if you decide this is really what you want. Formally convert.

Conversion may be unnecessary if you’re open to a Reform wedding: Reform Judaism permits interfaith marriages, though roughly half of all Reform rabbis still abjure officiating at them. Many non-Jews become “Jews by choice” because they’re spiritual seekers. Others are already involved in a Jewish community.

But four halakhic authorities ruled otherwise in a similar case – when the convert was the son of a convert. They ruled that in such a case, the son may refer to himself as “ploni the son of his father” instead of “ben Avraham Avinu”. (Rabbi Ouziel; Rabbi Felder in both of his books; Rabbi Lamm; Rabbi Walter Jacob).

"If you're Jewish because your mother is Jewish, you're not obliged to comply with the principles of Judaism. If you convert, you're obliged to do so," Javier Milei explained.

a) Klal Yisrael: sharing in the fate and faith of the Jewish people. The term as it is used here is intended to refer to a commitment to the support of Jewish communities around the world, particularly the local community in which the prospective convert lives.

Rabbi: As far as I know, non-Orthodox conversions done in Israel are not recognized by the Israeli government. Ones done outside of Israel are. However, this is only as far as gaining Israeli citizenship as a "Jewish" citizen is concerned. As far as marriage in Israel, it is done through the Rabbinate and only Orthodox conversions are accepted. sng9f. 258 182 226 85 383 387 316 309 304

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