One such individual showed up and seemed a nice enough fellow right up until the point where someone noticed that on his car was a bumper sticker that said: "Shiksas are for practice." He was gone less than a day later.
As a non-Jewish woman who brushed up against that sort of thinking a couple of times, I'd like to thank your synagogue.
For now, though, the last bit of background I want to put here is the knowledge that Conservative services generally use traditional texts (the siddur, prayer book) with Hebrew and some English. Services are often led by a cantor (classically trained singer) along with the Rabbi, and I learned the prayers and melodies that form the rhythm of the service in that milieu. It means that when I walk into most any Conservative synagogue I know what's going on...
I feel the same way about Catholic Mass. Catholicism isn't my religion anymore, but in some important way it is still "home".
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As a non-Jewish woman who brushed up against that sort of thinking a couple of times, I'd like to thank your synagogue.
For now, though, the last bit of background I want to put here is the knowledge that Conservative services generally use traditional texts (the siddur, prayer book) with Hebrew and some English. Services are often led by a cantor (classically trained singer) along with the Rabbi, and I learned the prayers and melodies that form the rhythm of the service in that milieu. It means that when I walk into most any Conservative synagogue I know what's going on...
I feel the same way about Catholic Mass. Catholicism isn't my religion anymore, but in some important way it is still "home".