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Intermarried Couples at Special Seminar in Odessa

ODESSA, UKRAINE – A group of 15 intermarried couples, who are interested in becoming fully observant Jews by going through universally accepted Jewish conversions, participated in a two-day seminar on the process of conversion to Judaism. The keynote speaker was Rabbi Shimon Grilius, the “refusenik” of the ‘70’s, who is considered one of the fathers of the teshuva movement in Russia. Rabbi Grilius was incarcerated for five years under the Communist regime, ultimately leaving for Eretz Israel in 1974. The fact that such a seminar could take place in the Ukraine was not lost on the lecturers, which also included Rabbi Mordechai Neugroschel and Rabbi Doron Kornbluth. Menachem Lubinsky delivered a message from Rabbi Leib Tropper, dean of Yeshiva Kol Yaakov/Horizons and the Chairman of the Rabbinic Committee of the Eternal Jewish Family: “EJF is proud to have come to the Ukraine to sponsor this seminar for couples who are sincerely interested in making the arduous journey to authentic Judaism.”

Eternal Jewish Family Presents Exhibit at Torah Umesorah Convention

EJF HAD PROMINENT exposure when it presented an exhibit at Torah Umesorah’s Annual Leadership convention which took place at the Friar Tuck Inn in Catskill, New York.  “It was a great opportunity to meet educators from around the world and brief them on our availability as an important resource in their work,” said Mrs. Rochel Weinstein, Director of Communications for Eternal Jewish Family.  According to Mrs. Weinstein, participants were “gratified to discover the existence of an organization that can help them deal with some of the consequences of improper conversions to Judaism and direct potential halachic Jewish converts to qualified rabbonim and batei din.  ”Educators from both remote and mainstream Jewish communities throughout the United States expressed the same common struggles with yuchsin issues in their own schools. “The general public may be surprised to learn that Jewish conversion issues occur in every spectrum of the Jewish educational system”, said Mrs. Weinstein.  “No one knows it more than these educators who frequently have the painful task of identifying families with improper conversions to Judaism.”