[schenbergjoan]

In reply to the post regarding intolerance for non-Orthodox people in orthodox synagogues outside the US. We belong to a reform congregation, and the conversion was acceptable. We had this done the orthodox way in the Mikvah.

I do know that one of the parents of two boys in our reform congregation who are adopted from Paraguay commented that at the conservative Jewish day school, her boys would get comments and questions as to whether they were black, etc. She pulled them out of this school and put them in the public school system. Also said they did not encounter this attitude in our reform congregation.