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Eternal Jewish Family Participates In New Mentoring Project for Ruth Institute Conversion Program

December 19, 2006
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Montreal, QC...The Eternal Jewish Family, a US-based organization dedicated to pursuing universally accepted conversions amongst intermarried couples is expanding its programs to Canada. EJF will sponsor the new Mentoring Program for the Ruth Institute Conversion Program of Montreal. The announcement was made by Rabbi Saul Emanuel, Executive Director of the Va’ad Hair of Montreal, at the annual Geirus Dinner of the Beis Din of Montreal, where graduates and candidates of the conversion program have the opportunity to interact with Rabbis, teachers and families that have helped them with their respective conversions.

The Eternal Jewish Family, through the Lillian Jean Kaplan Jewish Pride Through Education Project of Horizons, is an internationally recognized organization of Jewish education and outreach. It is particularly known for its efforts to promote universal conversion standards in intermarriages in accordance with the strictest interpretation of halacha. It has sponsored major rabbinic conferences in Newark, NJ, Hollywood, Florida, Jerusalem Israel, and Boston MA. Similar conferences are being planned for Washington, DC and Buenos Aires. The Eternal Jewish Family also sponsors three-day seminars for intermarried couples in the process of converting to Judaism and provides assistance to botei din involved in conversions that espouse the universal standards concept.

Rabbi Emanuel explained that the main objective of the program is to maintain the relationships that were formed between the graduates of the conversion program and their mentors, teachers and Rabbis that supported them throughout their conversions. “This new program will allow participants to continue the learning process with their instructors who guided them throughout the conversion process,” said Rabbi Emanuel.

Rabbi Leib Tropper, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Kol Yaacov/Horizons in Monsey, NY, a driving force behind EJF, was the guest speaker at the dinner. “EJF is constantly looking to expand its affiliates to include others that are dedicated to the conversion process that follow strict Halachic rule.” EJF follows the halachic rulings of the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein zt"l, his son Harav Reuven Feinstein, Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Staten Island and Harav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv in Israel. “I was very impressed with the turnout at the dinner of graduates and candidates of the conversion program as well as by their remarkable dedication to the conversion process that benefits them, their children and future generations,” added Rabbi Tropper. “EJF is honored to affiliate itself with the Beis Din of Montreal and hopes to continue this relationship that is a Kiddush Shem Shomayim (sanctification of the name of the Almighty), which benefits all of Klal Yisroel,” Rabbi Tropper concluded.

Founded in 1995, Horizons provides comprehensive programming aimed at people of all ages who may be searching for answers to life’s most difficult questions. The programs offered through Horizons provide meaningful and rich ways of responding to these issues based on Torah values and leading to fuller more active Jewish lives.

For more information regarding future conferences please contact 866-504-6749