Converts are Jewish. Period.
The other day, I was talking to someone about a friend of mine who had converted to Judaism, a.k.a., joined the Jewish people.
My conversation partner stopped me in my tracks.
"I don't believe in that," he said. "You can't convert to Judaism. You can't just join the Jewish people. You either are Jewish, or you are not. What — you take a class, and you take a test and they dunk you (in the mikveh, the ritual bath) and poof — you're Jewish?!?"
"No!" he continued. "You have to have a yiddishe neshame, a Jewish soul. You have to have centuries of suffering and feeling. It has to be in your DNA!"…
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