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Taste & See: A Jewish Conversion Comic Series

November 18, 2011 By punktorah

We’re so excited that Laura Cooper, the talent behind Taste & See: One Woman’s Journey To and Through Judaism is now on PunkTorah. Check out her first comic below!

Filed Under: Community Member Blogs, Converting To Judaism, Jewish Media Reviews, Random (Feelin' Lucky?) Tagged With: conversion to judaism, convert to judaism, convert to judaism online, darshan yeshiva, jewish comedian, jewish comic, jewish comic book, jewish comics, laura cooper, online conversion, patrick "aleph" beaulier, patrick aleph, punktorah, rabbi beaulier, rabbi patrick aleph beaulier

How To Justify Hating Converts (Or Loving Them)

October 2, 2011 By punktorah

I want to share a series of texts which I like to call my Conversion Bible Bullets. Bible, because they reference holy scripture (in this case, the Tanakh and Talmud) and bullets because people shoot these verses at each other in Jewish pissing matches about converts to Judaism.

I believe that Judaism is what you make of it. Whoever you are, whatever you are truly about, is how you are going to understand the Divine. So the question is this: when you look at these texts, which would you rather do…love, or despise thy neighbor?

No converts to Judaism will be accepted in the era of the Messiah. Babylonian Talmud, tractate Yebamot, page 24B, (20th line on page)

The Holy Blessed One does not favor any one person over another, but receives all; the gates are always open, and anyone who wishes to enter may do so. Shʼmot Rabbah 19:4 

No converts to Judaism were accepted in the era of King David and King Solomon. Babylonian Talmud, tractate Yebamot, page 24B, (21st line on page)

Moreover concerning the stranger that is not of Thy people Israel…when he shall come and pray toward this house; hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to Thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name (1 Kings 8:41-43)

Evil after evil will come upon those who accept converts. Babylonian Talmud, tractate Yebamot, page 109B (10th line on page)

God says to us, “As I welcomed Jethro the Midianite in the wilderness of Sinai, so must you welcome anyone who comes to you to join your people.” Yalkot Shimʼoni, Yitro, No. 268

Our Rabbis taught: Converts…delay the arrival of the messiah. Babylonian Talmud, tractate Niddah, page 13B (14th line on page)

Ruth the Moabite was an ancestress of King David (Ruth 4:13) whose direct descendent will be the Messiah.

The Golden Calf was built by converts. Midrash Tanchuma, Parshat Emor, chapter 11

The Israelites were struck dead with a plague for the Golden Calf that Aaron the Priest was responsible for. Exodus 32:35

Filed Under: Community Member Blogs, Converting To Judaism Tagged With: anti-conversion to judaism, bnai noach, conversion to judaism, convert to judaism, convert to judaism online, converts to judaism, darshan yeshiva, ger, ger tzedek, online conversion, patrick "aleph" beaulier, patrick aleph, punktorah, rabbi beaulier, rabbi patrick aleph beaulier, texts again conversion to judaism, texts supporting conversion to judaism

John Wofford: God Is A Metaphor

September 5, 2011 By punktorah

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzxG0CH5CcM

John Wofford says God is a metaphor, but for what?

Filed Under: Podcasts & Videos, The G-d Project Videos Tagged With: "Jewish New Media", conversion to judaism, convert to judaism, darshan yeshiva, god project, grand rapids michigan, jewishnewmedia, jnmif, John Wofford, patrick "aleph" beaulier, patrick aleph, punktorah, rabbi patrick aleph beaulier, the g-d project, the g-d project jewish, the god project, the god project jewish, theg-dproject

Religion Didn’t Apply To Me: Jacob Metcalf

May 18, 2011 By punktorah

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bOGULASd6Y

Jacob Metcalf on finding God in Judaism, when there was no God at all. The G-d Project is the world’s first social media platform dedicated to Jewish spirituality. We bring God back to the conversation. www.theg-dproject.org.

Filed Under: Podcasts & Videos, The G-d Project Videos Tagged With: conversion to judaism, convert to judaism, god project, Jacob Metcalf, judaism and recovery, the g-d project, the g-d project jewish, the god project, the god project jewish

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