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Of course, now that conversion IS an option, the wall building often takes the form of "Your conversion isn't good enough for me! I refuse to recognise it, and you as a Jew!" (or occasionally even: "Your grandmother's conversion isn't good enough for me to recognise you as a Jew!", a real life story from Berlin as outlined by the historian Barbara Steiner in her book "Die Inszenierung des Juedischen" p 60).

The most shattering example of this situation that I remember seeing is in the blog post linked below.

https://www.kvetchingeditor.com/2010/12/be-prepared-to-review-conversion-manual.html

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