OHH I FOUND A BOOK WRITTEN BY A JEWISH FILIPINO AMERICAN ABOUT HER CONVERSION AND FAITH IM

— caffeinated & COLD (@gayaiolia) October 29, 2017

Asian guy from the Philippines converted to Orthodox Judaism https://t.co/zAbzwtCoXb

— R J (@Rdt_Judaism) Agosto 13, 2017

Israel on d eye of a filipino tourist. Jerusalem d holy city its chopsoy populated wit jews, arabs n others.wit problems like mindanao.

— jun (@ricardojr49) May 20, 2013

@bannksT maybe ill set up a website so all the Filipino Jews can find eachother
— Jessica Reif (@jreif96) January 28, 2013

דָּוִיד: כֹּחַ מַעֲשָׂיו הִגִּיד לְעַמּוֹ לָתֵת לָהֶם נַחֲלַת גּוֹיִם

משה פייגלין: The new reality solves the issue of converting the children of immigrants who are not Jewish and solves the conversion issue even in non-chareidi tracks [and this is the root of the resistance].

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רָפָאֵל: From this point onward, one should begin to see the various uses of the Ger as he goes through grammatical chaos [AKA the Hebrew Language at its best]. 

We will be introduced to: 

• Ger
• Ger Toshav
• Ger Tzedek
• Ger - Conversion [Giur]
• Ger - Dweller
• Ger - Fear
• Ger - religious
• Ger - resident
• Onkelos’ perspective of these terms as they come up in Torah
• Ger Mitzvot

There really is only one Ger and he is simply called "Ger."

However there are many types of Ger, for, technically, Ger is a term that represents all of Mankind. As we splinter into many types of Ger, remember, there is only one Ger.

When you read the Torah and you come upon a mitzvah [and a Ger moment] - if your heart and soul cries out "Ger!" - then embrace the moment, for this is Ger. The rest is just commentary. Baruch Hashem.

רָפָאֵל: The usage "Gur" [derivitive of Ger] comes in 3 ways: neighbor, fear, fright

The usage [Grammatical Ger: (to) Gur] of "to dwell" can be seen in the Biblical as "Gar’"and "Giur" [the former being more literal and the latter showing that "to convert" is not the definition on any level in these instances]. 

[paraphrased]: The original "Ger" of the Onkelos Commentary [Onkelos was a Ger] was a non-Jew who joined onto the congregation of Israel. Only after many years [or many years of developmental Judaism] did the Ger/Ger process imply a Ger Tzedek - conversion status. A direct result of the Ger-semantics [when explaining Ger-usage in regards to dwelling with Jews,etc.] is an innate confusion from the extrapolation of the term Ger as it becomes Gior (Gee-ore) [גיור] grammatically in context to dwelling. Often it can be mistaken for Yitgayair [Ger derivitive in grammar] (גיור/יתגייר) and this causes a limitation onto the mitzvah to "Love the Ger."

***[point of paraphrase] The Passover Offering [to be brought] is by halacha a Ger Tzedek. Onkelos however refuses to use the term of conversion, rather he goes with a dweller who becomes permanently attached to his new [Torah] dwelling.

Jacob Wirtschafter: On Rosh Hashanah, Israelis welcome a more diverse set of Jews

||Marlene and Vittorio Ishak point out their wedding photograph, displayed prominently at the Beit Daniel Reform synagogue in Tel Aviv. Marlene, 53, married Vittorio, 81, in a civil ceremony in Cyprus. Today they are jointly attending an Introduction to Judaism course, part of the synagogue’s conversion process. Photo by Jacob Wirtschafter||

||Rabbi Galia Sadan teaches the Introduction to Judaism course, a requirement for conversion candidates at Beit Daniel, the largest Reform synagogue in Tel Aviv, Israel. More than half of the participants in this course are Filipino women with Israeli partners. Photo by Jacob Wirtschafter||

Jacob Wirtschafter: “We come every Friday and feel like we are part of the congregation,” said Jennifer Yehuda, 33, who came to Israel in 1998 from Cavite, a town nine miles south of Manila, the Philippines. “These are warm and accepting people who make it possible for us to come here as foreigners and make us feel like we are at home.”

“The Orthodox rabbis want to check that you have separate sinks and dishes for meat and dairy,” said Vittorio Ishak, who joins Marlene, his Filipino-born wife, at the synagogue’s weekly conversion course. “Here the rabbi wants to check that you understand the meaning behind the prayers and customs.”

Last year, Beit Daniel certified 135 of the 200 conversions performed in Israel by the Reform movement. About one-third of these new Jews are of Filipino origin.

While those from the former Soviet Union states still constitute about half of all candidates for conversion, Filipinos have emerged as the second largest ethnic community in the conversion cohort at Beit Daniel.

As Southeast Asians in a country where most immigrants are of European and Middle Eastern descent, the Filipinos are a highly visible new element in an increasingly diverse Reform Jewish community in Israel, which also includes gay couples.

“It is understandable that many of the Filipinos are participating in their services,” said Professor Zvi Zohar, a scholar at the Center for Halacha, at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. “They come from a country where people take their religion seriously.”