No, I think I'll bring her in Monday, with Finn for his appointments

[conuly]

Better than worrying.

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Comments

[adrian_turtle]

I haven't studied that part of Talmud yet, but I am dubious about the idea that Judaism requires rejecting anybody who is undocumented. I do not tell the story of how our people ran away in such a hurry they did not have time for their bread to rise, carrying only the ketubot of their parents and grandparents. I've heard stories of brave people running into burning buildings to save Torah scrolls or books of the Talmud. Not ketubot. We are people who flee oppression, sometimes at a moment's notice. That's a big part of why Israel HAS the Law of Return.

I have a problem with maintaining a system that is fundamentally upgefucked, and allowing exceptions for people of a particular racial group. Not sephardim or mizrachi. Not the descendents of converts.

I'm not personally harmed by this. Exactly. I have no desire to move to Israel. My mother's mother used to be named Sara Cohen, though if my mother had any Jewish documentation it would have been lost when the basement flooded. But her father was orphaned before he was 5 and raised by his father's second wife. She was an Ashkenazi Jew. His father was Jewish, at least by the Tsar's standards. His mother might or might not have converted to Judaism, but grandpa didn't remember her at all. (It was a tragic love story involving the Russian-Japanese War and the Great Flu. My family got awfully sloppy about official rules and documentation when somebody needed to be taken care of.)

[conuly]

I believe I've been told that the typical opinion is that if somebody says they're a Jew you should just believe them, but I don't know how accurate that is.