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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">re-posted to Avodah by request</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">I posted this to Areivim:</DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2>>>Yvonne Durant: One African-American Family's
Journey to Judaism<BR> <BR>>>Huffington Post<BR> <BR><A title=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yvonne-durant/one-african-american-fami_b_660836.html href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yvonne-durant/one-african-american-fami_b_660836.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yvonne-durant/one-african-american-fami_b_660836.html</A>
<BR> <BR>>>or<BR> <BR><A title=http://tinyurl.com/28w88yn href="http://tinyurl.com/28w88yn">http://tinyurl.com/28w88yn</A><BR> <BR>>>Jewish
mother gave her black baby up for adoption in the
1960's<BR> <BR> <BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>
<DIV>In a message dated 8/23/2010 , Larry.Levine@stevens.edu then wrote:</DIV>
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article says<BR><BR></B></FONT><FONT size=3>"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."<BR><BR>My understanding is that one is
not allowed to invite a non-Jew to eat at one's home on Yom Tov. See <A title=http://tinyurl.com/24to8zh href="http://tinyurl.com/24to8zh" eudora="autourl">http://tinyurl.com/24to8zh</A>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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