Judaism

[Rhein]

This thread is for the civil discussion of the jewish faith in Europe. I am half jewish and know many jews.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Europe

There are over 1 million jews in the EU alone with almost half living in France.

[Akko]

Interesting topic indeed. A good slice of my family is Sephardic. From what I know, they originally came from Babylon to Narbonne,France back during the reign of Charlemagne. I'm currently converting to Judaism.


Some interesting articles about Jews in Europe:
Charlemagne's Elephant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abul-Abbas#From_the_Orient_to_Europe
The Ladino Language: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Ladino.html
History and Development of Yiddish: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/yiddish.html

[Augy]

[Rhein]

my family comes from a long line of german jews. My grandma was born in 1930 and survived a concentration camp along with her sister and father. I am interested in converting but i have no idea how to start.

[Akko]

my family comes from a long line of german jews. My grandma was born in 1930 and survived a concentration camp along with her sister and father. I am interested in converting but i have no idea how to start.

Is your mom or dad Jewish? If your mom is fully Jewish, meaning her mother was Jewish, her mother's mother was Jewish, and so on, then you are already Jewish by Jewish law. It should be very easy for you to get a conversion, although I don't know if that's necessary if your mother is Jewish.

[MarshalKim]

I'm currently converting to Judaism.

my family comes from a long line of german jews. My grandma was born in 1930 and survived a concentration camp along with her sister and father. I am interested in converting but i have no idea how to start.

Praise the state of Israel and support the bombings of Palestinian kids.

Is your mom or dad Jewish? If your mom is fully Jewish, meaning her mother was Jewish, her mother's mother was Jewish, and so on, then you are already Jewish by Jewish law. It should be very easy for you to get a conversion, although I don't know if that's necessary if your mother is Jewish.

What if his dad is a banker? Is that good too?

[Turin Turambar]

I guess Rhein is mainly interested in the religion and not so much the greedy world domination jet fuel arab killing thing.

Spoiler

[close]

I love how this guy's name is actually Geldzahler (moneypayer in German).

[Rhein]

my family comes from a long line of german jews. My grandma was born in 1930 and survived a concentration camp along with her sister and father. I am interested in converting but i have no idea how to start.

Is your mom or dad Jewish? If your mom is fully Jewish, meaning her mother was Jewish, her mother's mother was Jewish, and so on, then you are already Jewish by Jewish law. It should be very easy for you to get a conversion, although I don't know if that's necessary if your mother is Jewish.

My mother is jewish so that's good.

Also the anti antisemitism is strong on FSE

[Akko]

my family comes from a long line of german jews. My grandma was born in 1930 and survived a concentration camp along with her sister and father. I am interested in converting but i have no idea how to start.

Is your mom or dad Jewish? If your mom is fully Jewish, meaning her mother was Jewish, her mother's mother was Jewish, and so on, then you are already Jewish by Jewish law. It should be very easy for you to get a conversion, although I don't know if that's necessary if your mother is Jewish.

My mother is jewish so that's good.

Also the anti antisemitism is strong on FSE

I would contact a synagogue in your area and ask them about conversion. Do you happen to know what movement of Judaism you want to join?

[Rhein]

my family comes from a long line of german jews. My grandma was born in 1930 and survived a concentration camp along with her sister and father. I am interested in converting but i have no idea how to start.

Is your mom or dad Jewish? If your mom is fully Jewish, meaning her mother was Jewish, her mother's mother was Jewish, and so on, then you are already Jewish by Jewish law. It should be very easy for you to get a conversion, although I don't know if that's necessary if your mother is Jewish.

Yeah Im going to

My mother is jewish so that's good.

Also the anti antisemitism is strong on FSE

I would contact a synagogue in your area and ask them about conversion. Do you happen to know what movement of Judaism you want to join?

yeah im going to talk to my mom and ask her about conversion.

[Akko]

my family comes from a long line of german jews. My grandma was born in 1930 and survived a concentration camp along with her sister and father. I am interested in converting but i have no idea how to start.

Is your mom or dad Jewish? If your mom is fully Jewish, meaning her mother was Jewish, her mother's mother was Jewish, and so on, then you are already Jewish by Jewish law. It should be very easy for you to get a conversion, although I don't know if that's necessary if your mother is Jewish.

Yeah Im going to

My mother is jewish so that's good.

Also the anti antisemitism is strong on FSE

I would contact a synagogue in your area and ask them about conversion. Do you happen to know what movement of Judaism you want to join?

yeah im going to talk to my mom and ask her about conversion.

Good luck!   

[Rhein]

Here are some jewish soldiers and graves from ww2

[Turin Turambar]

Also the anti antisemitism is strong on FSE

Depends on how you define antisemitism. In 90% percent of the cases I hear or read this word it is used for justifying Israels genocidal policy so I don't really like it.

[Akko]

A Jewish Brigade soldier holding a shell that says "A gift to Hitler" in Hebrew.

[Nipplestockings]