Pretending that he doesn't exist seems like a distortion of reality.
Does your h.s. newsletter report unhappy or shameful events? Like, George Smith, '88, recently graduated from a detox program? Or Elisa Jones, '75, was reported to Anytown Correctional Facility to begin her 10-year-sentence for motor vehicle homicide? Does it announce divorces, or just the re-marriages?
Marrying out is a serious infraction of Jewish law and Jewish social norms, at least from an Orthodox perspective, and for an institution whose purpose is the perpetuation of Jewish tradition, it's a horrendous failure that one of its students married a non-Jew.
I'm a convert, and when I applied for my oldest child to attend kindergarten there just this year, I was told that my being known in the community for over ten years isn't sufficient: I needed to produce the documentation given me by the rabbinical court (bet din) that oversaw my conversion. Whatever you think of the premises behind the policies, they are at least being consistent in their insistence on, if you'll pardon the bald expression, racial purity.
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Date: 2007-07-25 03:27 pm (UTC)Does your h.s. newsletter report unhappy or shameful events? Like, George Smith, '88, recently graduated from a detox program? Or Elisa Jones, '75, was reported to Anytown Correctional Facility to begin her 10-year-sentence for motor vehicle homicide? Does it announce divorces, or just the re-marriages?
Marrying out is a serious infraction of Jewish law and Jewish social norms, at least from an Orthodox perspective, and for an institution whose purpose is the perpetuation of Jewish tradition, it's a horrendous failure that one of its students married a non-Jew.
I'm a convert, and when I applied for my oldest child to attend kindergarten there just this year, I was told that my being known in the community for over ten years isn't sufficient: I needed to produce the documentation given me by the rabbinical court (bet din) that oversaw my conversion. Whatever you think of the premises behind the policies, they are at least being consistent in their insistence on, if you'll pardon the bald expression, racial purity.