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In this age of potpourri spirituality---once spouse
may classify themselves generally as a Christian
and have a church home and the other is Jewish.

Then arrives Friday night and they both attend   
Sabbath services and none-the-less immerse them-
selves in a chosen Jewish congregation, swaying
and singing enthusiastically Hebrew with others in
the temple.

With intermarriage so common, Reform synagogues
embrace interfaith couples. For the most part, con-
certed efforts to encourage non-Jewish
spouses to convert have been frowned
upon. Now, however, in what would be
a major shift of outlook for Reform
Judaism---the largest and most liberal  
of the three major streams of American
Judaism, with some 1.5 million mem-
members---that may be changing.

Concerned about what intermarriage is
doing to American Judaism, Rabbi Eric
H. Yoffie, president of the Union for
Reform Judaism, the organization of the
country's Reform Jewish congregations
called for Reform synagogues in 2007,
to increase their efforts to convert
non-Jewish spouses.

"But that is not our message," he said.

Now, Reform congregations across the
country are wrestling with how to
re-spond. The push, which is
accompan-ied by materials and
initiatives on "inviting and supporting
conversion," treads on emotionally
fraught territory for thousands of
interfaith families.

It also clashes with a longstanding aver-
sion among many Jews to anything
resembling proselytizing.

Inner struggle rests in wanting to reach
out there as much as possible and at the
same time, not appear to be the Luba-
vitch," reference to the Orthodox sect
of Hasidic Jews known for its aggres-
sive outreach programs, especially
focusing on nonobservant Jews.
Many rabbis who were interviewed said
they were considering steps like
eleva-ting the prominence of recent
converts in their congregations and
making conver-sions more visible as an
option for non-Jewish spouses.

Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz, at Rodeph
Sholom on the Upper West Side of
Man-hattan, said he would like to
increase the frequency at his synagogue
of special Sabbath dinners in which
converts share their stories, and he
would like to be more bold, in asking
non-Jewish spouses how they are doing
spiritually.

At the same time, he stressed the
impor-tance of caution and sensitivity.

"I don't get a notch on my belt every
time I get one," Rabbi Gewirtz said.

It's about embodying many of the
chal-lenges, including how to raise a
couple's child(ren), steeped in two
religions, which is a practice most
Jewish leaders oppose.

A certain matter of decision indeed---on  
how to instill in one's children, a feeling
of spirituality, in the sense that they can
feel comfortable both in a Christian
church and in a Jewish synagogue.

These are not houses divided on the
mortal course toward God. Yet these
facts suggests more aggressive thinking
is necessary, about converting
non-Jewish spouses and their children is
only the first step for Reform congre-
gations.

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