A fine masmid at one of Israel’s better-known yeshivos discovered to his horror that he was not Jewish just as he was about to begin dating.
At that juncture, his mother revealed that although his father was Jewish, she herself had never undergone conversion. Both parents are immigrants from the Ukraine. Stunned at the revelation, the bochur fled home and sat down and cried.
Chief Rabbi Yitzchok Yosef advised him to undergo a speedy conversion.
{Matzav.com Israel}
One of the great non-stories I’ve ever read
I wish him much hatzlacha.
Eliyah Haliwa can learn bichavrusa with this bachur. They are both goyim.
No, no, no!
Haliwa is a Sefardi goy, while this bachur is an Ashkenazy goy,
Lol!
He should eat a cheese burger, build a Bammah and then convert
This is really not funny! My heart goes out to him!
Being lied to by parents for 20 years is something to cry about.
A posek at a Baal Teshuva Yeshiva told me that this happened a few times a year. The geirus was done privately so few people knew what transppired.
Wow this article is one of the most profound and finest pieces of writing I have ever come across. Really took some talented journalism over here, guys