lesschumras- I agree with your question #2. I have heard that the intermarriage rate is hovering around 70% these days – I cannot cite the source because I don’t remember. I even know an extremely frum man who was more “attracted” to gentile woman and he married one – of course, after she converted. She now has 9 children and wears a sheitl. But, the point is where would he have had the opportunity to become involved with her in the first place? I know that once a person is converted, we are to accept them as if they were born Jewish, but usually, no matter how frum they are, something is lacking (my personal opinion). I often think that because “being Jewish” is more than religion – it consists an awful lot of culture. Most secular Jews have something about them that is more Jewish than the most frum convert. This is not meant to be a blanket statement, just a generaliztion from my personal observations. What do the rest of you think? I know it is a little off the topic of this thread.
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