Intermarried Couples at Special Seminar in Odessa
Written by Admin on October 14, 2009 – 12:18 pm -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.”
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