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Eternal Jewish Family Holds Second Conference for Intermarried Jews Looking to Rejoin the Jewish Fam

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Amir Lehrer, LUBICOM Marketing Consulting
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Phoenix, Arizona - Over 30 intermarried couples who are interested in becoming fully observant Jews by going through universally accepted conversions, participated in a 2-day seminar on the process of conversion. The second in a series of seminars throughout the world, the event was sponsored by the Eternal Jewish Family on May 13-15, 2007 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona.

The main focus of these seminars is to help intermarried couples who would like to pursue a halachic lifestyle by going through a universally accepted conversion. Rabbi Leib Tropper, dean of Yeshiva Kol Yaakov/Horizons and founder of the Eternal Jewish Family said: “For too long the assumption was that the Jewish spouse in intermarriage was lost to the Jewish nation forever, but increasingly many are making choices to return to Jewish life and not just Jewish life, but to a fully observant lifestyle in accordance with halacha.”

Pauline Edwards of New York, NY who attended the first seminar in Oxnard California in June 2006 was so inspired that she and her husband worked with the Eternal Jewish Family towards her conversion and had a halachic wedding to her Jewish husband at the Phoenix conference. The couple stood under the chupa in the hot Phoenix sun as Rabbi Tropper officiated. Pauline, who is now an observant Jew said after the Oxnard conference: “The seminar exceeded all of my expectations. I am beyond inspired!”

Seminar participants participated in lectures from such world renowned lecturers and authors as Rabbi Mordechai Neugroschel, Rabbi Doron Kornbluth, Rabbi Meyer Schiller and Rabbi Yonasan Rosenblum as well as Susan Blond, the CEO of Susan Blond Inc.

For many of the participants, the EJF sponsored seminars help them clarify the choices that they face. Several of the speakers emphasized that proceeding with a universally accepted conversion means nothing less than living as a fully observant Jew. Some of the couples are already visibly living that lifestyle.

EJF is planning a series of seminars for intermarried couples in the early stages of contemplating a universally accepted conversion. The next seminar will be held on August 19-21, 2007 in Montreal, Canada followed by 6-8 seminars across the United States in 2008. Most of the couples have already researched the requirements for such a conversion and most have been part of classes offered by some of the kiruv organizations. “The kiruv organizations,” exclaimed Rabbi Dovid Jacobs of EJF “are often the point of entry for the couples exploring the possibility of a universally accepted conversion.”

In addition to the seminars, EJF has already held major rabbinic conferences in Newark, Miami, Boston and Jerusalem with future conferences to be held in Washington, DC, Buenos Aires, Argentina and again in Jerusalem. The EJF follows the guidance of such luminaries as Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv, the noted Torah authority in Israel and the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, as interpreted by his son Rabbi Reuvein Feinstein, who is the head of EJF’s halachic committee.

For information, please contact: Amir Lehrer at 718.854.4450 ext.102 or e-mail at amir@lubicom.com.