tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post7403938872551133268..comments2023-10-06T11:13:20.836-04:00Comments on Izgad: AJS Conference Day Three Session One (Explorations in the Society and Culture of Italian Jewry and Death and Acculturation)Izgadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-71652501835252356552009-01-06T13:08:00.000-05:002009-01-06T13:08:00.000-05:00If a woman converts along with her husband than th...If a woman converts along with her husband than the two would still be legally Jewish and legally married according to Jewish law so the kids would count as fully kosher Jews. You might enjoy Stephen J. Dubner's Turbulent Souls. His parents were both Jews who became Catholic. He "converted" back to Judaism.Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-11199446284670190272009-01-06T12:54:00.000-05:002009-01-06T12:54:00.000-05:00...husbands are not giving their wives halachic di...<I>...husbands are not giving their wives halachic divorces, leaving them as agunot. This becomes a major incentive for women to convert.</I><BR/><BR/>This "solves" the agunot problem for the woman converting only; in that Judaism doesn't really have a way to relinquish your "Jewishness". Any subsequent children would still be mamzerim. Surely these women would have been aware of that (either Miss S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10887805742474651903noreply@blogger.com