Nice post, thanks. I have to admit I was a little bothered by R"B's broadcast announcement; it just felt...inappropriate somehow.
One consideration I wanted to bring up in the born-Jews asking "why on earth would you want to do that?" arena: most born Jews I've met aren't tremendously religious. Even the nominally observant ones who theoretically believe in G-d don't talk about G-d, and the religious part of the Jewish culture-religion gets short shrift even among the Orthodox. Those born Jews I've met who ARE religious normally don't even ask, or they ask a rather different question, along the lines of "how did you come to do it?" If you're coming from a perspective of religion as an encounter with G-d, rather than with anti-Semites, overbearing mothers, and indigestion, someone's choice to convert seems a little more sensible. Or at least, a little less odd.
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Date: 2009-04-05 04:41 am (UTC)One consideration I wanted to bring up in the born-Jews asking "why on earth would you want to do that?" arena: most born Jews I've met aren't tremendously religious. Even the nominally observant ones who theoretically believe in G-d don't talk about G-d, and the religious part of the Jewish culture-religion gets short shrift even among the Orthodox. Those born Jews I've met who ARE religious normally don't even ask, or they ask a rather different question, along the lines of "how did you come to do it?" If you're coming from a perspective of religion as an encounter with G-d, rather than with anti-Semites, overbearing mothers, and indigestion, someone's choice to convert seems a little more sensible. Or at least, a little less odd.