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Should Converts only date Converts?
mord:
Thats what i said
Kananga:
That's just it. Since the Jewish community will not fully accept me as a Jew, then I should marry whoever I want without feeling I have to fulfill this "obligation". Besides, most jewish guys I know are dating/married to non-jewish women anyway. The majority of converts, Gerim, or whatever you refer to us as do so with the intention to marry a Jewish man, so the chance that I would ever have a romantic interest in another convert is slim to none.
Shlomo:
Did you convert, Kananga? I don't know your situation so I'm only guessing.
Jewish people should only marry other Jews and live by Torah. For example, I don't see how someone could keep kosher if they lived with someone who didn't follow any of the dietary laws.
Kananga:
Yes, I have underwent a halachic conversion and consider myself a Jew by faith. The term "Jewish" to me implies ethnicity, as in Ashkenazic or Sephardic, to which I am neither.
Why kid myself? It's the same thing as someone chooses to identify as an Ashkenazic jew, white atheist, or Irish Catholic. Nor am I going to agonize over the idea of gaining acceptance into the Jewish community for the rest of my life. I mean really... who do you know who wastes themselves worrying about stuff like that all the time. I self-identify as a Black Jew, and although it's my choice to do so, in reality it's the only choice I really have.
I'm a vegetarian. I only eat kosher cheese. I've kashered or replaces all of my plates and installed a metal sink. If I meet someone who agrees with my lifestyle, who doesn't make a big deal out of me wearing a tzit-tzit, or going to synagogue to worship, I don't see what the problem is.
Shlomo:
The problem is that if you marry a non-Jewish girl, your children will not be Jewish. Also, you need to follow the Torah to the best of your ability. If you do not, you are doing a very serious and wrong thing to the Rabbi that converted you. You need to think of more than yourself.
If you had a halachic conversion, then you are just as Jewish as any born Jew. Being a Jew is not a racial issue and Chaim has said this many times. Why do you worry so much what people think? Worry about what Hashem thinks.
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