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I have a question since a very long time and I haven't been able to find an answer on it. There are many answers about similar things but not on the specific question I have. I wonder whether it's common to discriminate people who wish to convert to Judaism? I have read that it might exists in some congregations worldwide where people who have already converted have been mistreated and maybe even discriminated.
In my case, I contacted a Jewish congregation (there are three in the entire country which belongs to a centralized organization) closest to where I lived in 2010. Later that year I moved to the city where one of them exists. I thought it was strange when they said I could meet the chazzan (not the rabbi) for this kind of conversation. A conversation about conversion with the chazzan was not what I expected. But the meeting itself went well.
Due to high security they demanded many documents from me such as showing if I have any criminal records. I didn't mind doing it since I have no criminal records. But even before the meeting took place, it was earlier the same year I contacted them for the first time and asking if I could visit the synagogue. They said yes, but when I arrived they denied me without telling me why. After the meeting it took another few months. I contacted them and asking them why they took so long time.
They called me and were really rude for no reason. It was their security guard who called me. Except bad behavior he also called me a Nazi. He was clearly mentally unstable. It ended that I was denied to convert but were also banned from the Jewish community. That ban made me being banned from the other Jewish congregations in the country too.
To make this long story short. I kept asking them several times a year for six years. I moved to a different part of the country and lived closer to another congregation. They denied me because of my ban. I kept asking them for a long time because they didn't wanted to tell me because they claimed I already knew why. If I knew I wouldn't be asking. Finally they answered me. Apparently I'm "too Zionist" whatever that means.
The Jewish community in my country are united so Reforms, Conservatives and Orthodoxs are within the same congregations. I wants to convert Orthodox. It's strange it took six years to get an answer about this. I even tried to convert in the neighboring country since it was close to me from where I lived before I left my country. But they denied me because of geographical reasons which is more understandable.
Are there any others who have been denied and banned for similar reasons? I don't mean the tradition to be denied three times by a rabbi.
In my case, I contacted a Jewish congregation (there are three in the entire country which belongs to a centralized organization) closest to where I lived in 2010. Later that year I moved to the city where one of them exists. I thought it was strange when they said I could meet the chazzan (not the rabbi) for this kind of conversation. A conversation about conversion with the chazzan was not what I expected. But the meeting itself went well.
Due to high security they demanded many documents from me such as showing if I have any criminal records. I didn't mind doing it since I have no criminal records. But even before the meeting took place, it was earlier the same year I contacted them for the first time and asking if I could visit the synagogue. They said yes, but when I arrived they denied me without telling me why. After the meeting it took another few months. I contacted them and asking them why they took so long time.
They called me and were really rude for no reason. It was their security guard who called me. Except bad behavior he also called me a Nazi. He was clearly mentally unstable. It ended that I was denied to convert but were also banned from the Jewish community. That ban made me being banned from the other Jewish congregations in the country too.
To make this long story short. I kept asking them several times a year for six years. I moved to a different part of the country and lived closer to another congregation. They denied me because of my ban. I kept asking them for a long time because they didn't wanted to tell me because they claimed I already knew why. If I knew I wouldn't be asking. Finally they answered me. Apparently I'm "too Zionist" whatever that means.
The Jewish community in my country are united so Reforms, Conservatives and Orthodoxs are within the same congregations. I wants to convert Orthodox. It's strange it took six years to get an answer about this. I even tried to convert in the neighboring country since it was close to me from where I lived before I left my country. But they denied me because of geographical reasons which is more understandable.
Are there any others who have been denied and banned for similar reasons? I don't mean the tradition to be denied three times by a rabbi.
