{"id":59214,"date":"2014-10-21T07:19:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59214"},"modified":"2014-10-21T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:21:02","slug":"are-barry-freundels-orthodox-conversions-still-valid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59214","title":{"rendered":"Are R. Barry Freundel&#8217;s Orthodox Conversions Still Valid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ask historian Marc B. Shapiro: &#8220;What do you think of the RCA coming out with a quick statement that all of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/national-rabbi-board-knew-of-misconduct-allegations-against-georgetown-rabbi-for-at-least-two-years\/2014\/10\/20\/f3c924ca-5865-11e4-bd61-346aee66ba29_story.html?tid=hpModule_13097a0c-868e-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&#038;hpid=z12\">R. Freundel&#8217;s conversions<\/a> are valid? I suspect haredim now have even more reason to dismiss all <A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/the-convert-bill-of-rights\/\">MO conversions<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marc responds: &#8220;Why shouldn&#8217;t they be valid. He was not a public violator of Jewish law, so as far as halakhah is concerned, what is done remains valid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selwyn: &#8220;We should encourage converts &#8211; and welcome them in. Judaism is global (all peoples prayed at the Temple in Jerusalem), pro-peace (we pray for it constantly &#8211; in every service), the original environmentalists (Tu Bishvat ) and we have much to offer adherents and society. We also believe sincerely that any path to a legitimate peace-loving God is to be embraced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek: Instead of calling this a &#8220;conversion,&#8221; I think we ought to follow modern idioms and call it a &#8220;neshama reassignment.&#8221; We would then call &#8220;converts&#8221; &#8220;TransYidden&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ask historian Marc B. Shapiro: &#8220;What do you think of the RCA coming out with a quick statement that all of R. Freundel&#8217;s conversions are valid? I suspect haredim now have even more reason to dismiss all MO conversions.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,29655],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversion","category-r-barry-freundel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59219,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59214\/revisions\/59219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}