Jewish Tribune: A Child and Decision to Convert (4)

There was a case recently, in England, which was reported as allowing a Jewish ten-year-old girl to convert to Christianity. That was not the actual decision, though. What the case still revealed, however, were not adversities for us from the outside world but, rather, problems and weaknesses in our modern understandings of Jewishness.

In a series of articles in the Jewish Tribune, I further investigate this. For the fourth in the series, please see
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/religion/2012/10/29/a-child-and-decision-to-convert-4

Rabbi Ben Hecht