and when they lead to acceptance into the community. We are at an initial stage of working out solutions to these problems for ourselves and for the entire North American Jewish community.
Some efforts to deal with these matters jointly have been made, but thus far without success.*’ At the same time, local efforts to create joint conversion procedures were undertaken in a number of North American communities; the best known was that of Denver , but all have thus far failed.
Notes
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