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When A Child Intermarries

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The Role of Shiva in the Life of a Child Who Converts to Another Religion

Rabinu Gershome who led Ashkenazi Jewry at the turn of the millennia right in the year 1000 is when he was really reshaping and reconstituting what Ashkenazi Jews looked like. He had a child who apostasized which is where the notion has trickled down of sitting Shiva for children who convert to another religion. In non-Orthodox communities, the way they have dealt with it has been radically different.

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