Opening the gates
Subtitle: how proactive conversion can revitalize the Jewish community
By: Gary A. Tobin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Jewish converts.; Judaism -- United States.
Description: "In Opening the Gates, Gary Tobin challenges his fellow American Jews to avoid the process of entropy that could take a devastating toll in the Jewish community. He implores the Jewish community to shift its focus from preventing intermarriage to embracing an open, positive, accessible, and joyful process of encouraging non-Jews to become Jews."--BOOK JACKET.

"Opening the Gates examines the role conversion should play in the Jewish future. It looks at the way the Jewish community currently handles issues of intermarriage and conversion and recommends strategies to incorporate conversion into a larger vision of building the next Jewish civilization.

Tobin suggests what Judaism might look like if it were to promote itself as a positive choice for both Jews and non-Jews in the marketplace of religious affiliation - and tells us what the community needs to do to mold this future."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Community in transition; title: The constraints of being afraid; title: Preventing the disaster; title: Why we believe what we do; title: Walls we have built; title: Rabbis at the center of the storm; title: The case for conversion; title: What we do that works; title: How to open the gates.