[Avodah] One African-American Family's Journey to Judaism

[T613K at aol.com]

re-posted to Avodah by request
 
I posted this to Areivim:
>>Yvonne Durant: One African-American Family's  Journey to Judaism

>>Huffington Post

_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yvonne-durant/one-african-american-fami_b_660
836.html_ 
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yvonne-durant/one-african-american-fami_b_660836.html)   

>>or

_http://tinyurl.com/28w88yn_ (http://tinyurl.com/28w88yn) 

>>Jewish  mother gave her black baby up for adoption in the  1960's


In a message dated 8/23/2010 , Larry.Levine at stevens.edu then wrote:







The  article says


"This night will be like no other  night I've experienced with a Jewish 
family. While I have been a guest for  many years at my friend Maggie Klein's 
family Passovers (I come armed with  containers to take home matzo ball soup 
and charoset, and Maggie's sister,  Fran Fink, is happy to fill them up), 
where I addressed the late matriarch as  "Mother Klein," I have never been the 
guest of a Modern Orthodox  African-American family. Tonight I will be one 
of two Gentiles, the other  being Elyse's sister, Arnette Haynes, and we'll 
be joined by two other couples  -- six children in all, and two dogs."

My understanding is that one is  not allowed to invite a non-Jew to eat at 
one's home on Yom Tov. See _http://tinyurl.com/24to8zh_ 
(http://tinyurl.com/24to8zh)      


YL 
 
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For various reasons it has happened that we did have goyim to our house for 
 yom tov -- once for a seder -- and my understanding is that you are not 
allowed  to cook for them on yom tov but if you cooked before yom tov, you can 
 put the food on the table for everyone including the non-Jewish  guests.  
The second seder is more of a problem because you have to warm up  the food 
on yom tov.  The first seder is less of a problem because you put  the food 
on the heat before yom tov started.
 
Anyone who follows the link RYL provided will see that it says  you can't 
/cook/ for goyim on yom tov, it doesn't say you can't invite them to  your 
table.
 
I would also like to ask what you would do with a non-Jew who is both  A. 
planning to undergo an Orthodox gerus and is in the process of learning and  
also B. currently married to a Jew who is on the way to becoming a BT.
 
I do not think kiruv can be done nowadays without also being  mekarev 
goyim.  We live in a strange Alice in Wonderland world.  There  is no 
non-Orthodox Jew who doesn't have goyim in his family -- his father, his  wife, his 
in-laws.  In fact, even most FFBs today -- if they have any  non-frum relatives 
-- have goyim somewhere in the family.   As I  have said before, I believe 
that we are living in the last generation in which  kiruv is even still 
possible.  
 
 
--Toby Katz
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