Comments for ruth's megillah

Comment on forever a stranger by scarletwaltz

scarletwaltz — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:56:27 +0000

add me up, cheyenne,scarletwaltz.wordpress.com…leave some comment also..thanks

Comment on Why I’ve Not Been Posting… by anoniWoopsdOp

anoniWoopsdOp — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:46:45 +0000

This look interesting,so far.
If there’s anyone else here, let me know.
Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.

Later,

Comment on forever a stranger by Vesper

Vesper — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:51:30 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Vesper.

Comment on Why I’ve Not Been Posting… by RMiwa

RMiwa — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:03:17 +0000

Our health in our hands - our food must be good!

Comment on forever a stranger by Alex

Alex — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:46:55 +0000

Please consider writing news pieces or an op-ed for Jewrusalem: Israeli Uncensored News. We strive to present different views and opinions while rejecting political correctness. Ideally, we try to make the news “smart and funny.” Thus, your input is very welcome.

Best,
Alex
http://www.jewrusalem.net/en

Comment on forever a stranger by observer

observer — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:41:55 +0000

Hi Ruth,
I am sorry because you seem hurt, but…aren’t you being paranoid a little bit?
A convert to Judaism is not called a Jew ( there is no doubdt he is), but a Ger, there is nothing wrong with being a stranger, but it seems that you expect everyone to treat you as a local and you want them to TOTALY forget you status. You are lucky, you are Avrohom aveinu’s chosen daughter, you are different and you should embrace it and not feel inferior by it!
Part of the conversion deal is that no matter what happens there will be ALWAYS people who never consider you a Jewess, if you went through gerut you should be strong enough to reaise that it is just the way it is, it is sad, not for you but for those fellow yids who are breaking halacha.
The problem isn’t in the fact that you are a gera, but the fact that you decided to hide it, if you hide something it means you aren’t comfortable showing it, it means that there is something wrong with it, is there anything wrong with your gerut? of course not! But secrecy isn’t the best way to prove it, BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE, AVROHOM AVEINU IS YOUR FATHER, how lucky that is?
Keep learning and improving your hebrew, get yourself somefriends in the community, organise tehilim reading in your house, go and share these thoughts w/rabbi or rebetzen, I am sure they have good advices about how to improve your life and situation.
Keep learning and keep mitzvot meticuousely, your learning for gerut (that fees to you like smicha) should reflect on your lifestye and chumras.
All the best, may you live to see your children become Torah scholars and be the pride of Jews around them.

Comment on uniforms #2 by Rook

Rook — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:29:00 +0000

Zachary

A close mouth catches no flies…

Comment on forever a stranger by The Dude

The Dude — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:03:22 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, unfortunately our communities are full of people who are self-centered and judgmental, and are more than willing to demean others within the community (whether born Jewish, converts, Baalei Teshuvah or anything else). People say the most rude and obnoxious things at Shul Board and general meetings withour any consideration for the feelings of others. Our little quirky unique Shul where anyone could feel comfortable has become just like every other Shul in the NY metro area, complete with obnoxious know-it-alls. I believe they are a minority but exert great influence in many communities.

Comment on forever a stranger by LC

LC — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:45:31 +0000

Ditto to both prior comments.

As far as people you don’t know well, though, please give them the benefit of the doubt. As much as being translated for personally when it isn’t necessary annoys me, I am very sensitive to it in formal (lecture, speech, etc.) settings because some people *don’t* have the Hebrew/Yiddish vocbulary, and no one in the audience should feel left out.

A friend and I (FFB and long time BT, respectively) were once guests in someone’s home where our bentchers were taken, and replaced with English ones because “those aren’t for you”. !!! Suffice it to say that we weren’t interested in going back, but having re-met these people years later, as members of “their” bit of the Jewish community, they are very nice people, maybe just a bit too quick to jump and assume that someone is clueless, possibly in a misplaced desire to be helpful. They are very involved in kiruv, and apparently their approach works well for those who need it.

As far as the long time neighbors and friends who should know better, shame on them. . . . An acquaintance of several years on the road to conversion recently told me that she never intended to convert locally, as there is too much controversy over *which Beis Din* performed the conversion, and she’d rather (1) wait and (2) go to the pickiest Beis Din in Jerusalem so as not to have questions later. In the mean time, she has been welcomed here, as have several others who came to town as (already) “Jews by choice”. So maybe you can take heart in knowing there are still places free from the judgementalism of your neck of the woods.