[Avodah] Status of Non-Jew born to Jewish Father

[Zev Sero]

On 3/11/2011 9:37 AM, T613K at aol.com wrote:
> Based on the mesorah in which I was raised, I would strongly disagree with your friend's approach.  Converting a baby when the mother is not Jewish and will not be raising the baby in a Jewish, Torah home is just plain wrong.

The child is not being converted now.  Only the milah is being done,
so that if the child eventually decides to complete his conversion (or
if the family decides to return to yiddishkeit) he won't have to have
that done as an adult.

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