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Torah and Jewish Idea => Torah and Jewish Idea => Topic started by: Meerkat on September 11, 2010, 04:03:16 PM

Title: halachaic status?
Post by: Meerkat on September 11, 2010, 04:03:16 PM

if someone is born to a gentile woman, and only AFTER he is born, the mom convert to judaism, does the child get halachaic status as a jew?

Title: Re: halachaic status?
Post by: Raulmarrio2000 on September 11, 2010, 08:50:48 PM

Quote from: KahanistLiberal on September 11, 2010, 04:03:16 PM

if someone is born to a gentile woman, and only AFTER he is born, the mom convert to judaism, does the child get halachaic status as a jew?

Definitely NO. One is Jewish only if one's mother was a Jewess at the time one was born, or if one voluntarily does an Orthodox Conversion.