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@Meta-Man The contest is currently in a five-way tie! Come vote and/or post more entries! Entries and voting are open until some point on Friday.

@IsaacMoses yeah, we are not currently making this easy on you. :-)

@MonicaCellio FWIW, "we" includes me, as I've both posted an entry and cast votes.

@Lee judaism.stackexchange.com/q/79938/4682

@Lee it is very sad, though I understand it. I think in general people are very hesitant when it comes to halacha. Normally the situation is somewhat mundane, so we brush it off and move on, but that hesitance hits a peak when it comes to something like intermarriage. The question "is it really ok to put this pot back on the blech?" is vastly different from "Is it okay to marry my child to this person who wasn't always a Jew?" The stakes are uncomparable.

My mom is a convert, and I underwent a Geirut MiSafek, so I agree it shouldn't happen, but if I'm honest, for a while I would agonize over my Jewish status, even after all of this.

@Lee in the end its a subjective thing, and it takes a big person to overcome that subjectivity. Human Nature is what Judaism aims to thwart. It takes the Jew to execute that aim.

@Lee and it does happen. IIRC my sister was turned down for a date because my mom was a convert, and the boys mother didn't want her son marrying the daughter of a convert.

@Lee its a symptom of exile, unfortunately. If we had a centralized body to handle conversions for all of Judaism there would be less of an issue. But when community Rabbis band together to convert someone, to people that conversion is only as good as those rabbis (again largely due to halachic ignorance). Sorry for the rant