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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito
Why did you end up choosing Judaism AEPhi alum? Just the egalitarianism? If so, what set it aside from the various denominations of Christianity?
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I did investigate Protestant Christianity as part of my search for a faith that felt right for me. I know that some Protestant sects, including Church of England, embrace egalitarianism and ordain women. My mother was raised Anglican and converted to Catholicism... and her parents did not speak to her from that day until the day I was born.
In Judaism, there is a belief that someone who converts was really Jewish all along - it just took him/her a while to figure it out. In my case it's true. Many of my childhood friends were Jewish; I gravitated to the Jewish sorority on campus; I fell in love with a Jewish man.
On the matter of egalitarianism - the rabbi I studied with told me that I should go to an Orthodox service to see what it was like. I refused, and I told him why. He agreed.