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Being a Jew of Muslim Descent, a Problematic Identity
Author(s): Allouche-Benayoun, Joëlle
Editor(s): Gross, Martine; Nizard, Sophie; Scioldo-Zurcher, Yann
Date: 2017
Topics: Jewish Identity, Conversion, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interviews
Abstract: Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun investigates the “problematic identity” of Muslims having converted to Judaism in France. In her article, the cases of conversion are based on two sorts of sources: testimony in the digital Jewish press (the internet), studying conversion files, and interviews carried out with Muslim men and women who converted or are in the process of converting to Judaism. In the presently taut context of Judeo-Muslim relations, converted men and women stand by their choice in the name of what they call their “ideological proximity” to Judaism – or to Jews – but they also express their rejection of, or their intention to keep away from, “Islamic excesses”.
Applying for Adoption: How are Jewish Families Perceived?
Author(s): Nizard, Sophie
Editor(s): Gross, Martine; Nizard, Sophie; Scioldo-Zurcher, Yann
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Adoption, Family and Household, Parenthood, Jewish Identity, Conversion
Abstract: Sophie Nizard takes up the question of the multiplication of family models by examining the case of children adopted by Jewish families in France. She analyses how Jewish families wishing to adopt are perceived by social workers or the physicians employed by the French institutions or agencies in charge of adoption. As soon as it is known that the project to become parents goes along with the will to transmit a Jewish identity to children “from abroad” these perceptions are frequently negative, which can jeopardize the entire adoption process for these famili
The History of Beit Haverim
Author(s): Gross, Martine
Editor(s): Gross, Martine; Nizard, Sophie; Scioldo-Zurcher, Yann
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, LGBT, Jewish Community, Jewish Organisations, Jewish Communal Politics
Abstract: n her article, Martine Gross studies the multiplication of family models from the point of view of homosexual French Jews. Taking off from the history of a gay and lesbian group, Beit Haverim, she shows how Jewish institutions in France have moved from “grossly ignoring” simply the possibility of a double identity – Jewish
and homosexual – to gradually accepting Beit Haverim as an interlocutor. But she also tells the story of the growing awareness among rabbis and the organized community that a compound reality actually exists