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To: Poet who wrote (9548)	4/17/2002 10:14:07 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 21057

Me too. I loved my Jewish friends - they valued many of the same things that I did. I had a second mother figure (my Journalism teacher) who found something in me that other teachers didn't. She had a wonderful family, a really hot daughter that I was too shy to date, a great son and husband and she opened her house to everyone. Just a wonderful lady with a wonderful family. I was invited to the son's Bar Mitzvah and was very honored that she asked us to join her family in the celebration.

To: Poet who wrote (9548)	4/18/2002 8:47:50 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

There have been points in its history when Judaism WAS a proselytizing religion. It stopped, after the destruction of the Second Temple and rise of Christianity, for the most part. However, there are still records of proselytizing in the Middle Ages. For example, one of the most famous Jewish books of the Medieval period is The Khazari, which deals with an episode where a Near Eastern kingdom (close to Armenia) invited representatives of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to debate in the court, and ended up converting en masse to Judaism. Nowadays, most conversion occurs in the context of inter- marriage........