"David Tenner" wrote in message
news:Xns9DE7C37D9F330dtennerameritechnet@216.168.3.30...
> Naraht wrote in
> news:d55121b1-d0c6-4287-83f7-e4b3830d90d6@n3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com :
>
> [On Tasrist Russia;]
>
>>
>> Could one convert from Christianity to Judaism and then from Judaism
>> to Islam?
>>
>> (and yes, this doesn't qualify as post WWII, but 20th century still
>> surprises me.
>>
>
> Christians were not permitted to convert to Judaism. In fact, when Hebrew
> books about Jewish relgious law were printed in Russia, the rabbis were
> always careful to add in the sections dealing with proselytes, "those
> regulations apply to those countries only in which the law of the State
> permits conversion."
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=pGGrHYzvFbEC&pg=PA200
>
>
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> David Tenner
> dtenner@ameritech.net
Was one permitted to be none of Christian, Jew or Moslem?
And if a member of "none of the above", could one then join
any one of them? Then comes the issue of the Asian "Stan"s,
where Iume various Asian religions would leak in at the
edges, complicating the picture to the consternation of the
bureaucrats.
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