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16 year old wants to be Jewish

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onemoreroll · 11/04/2014 13:20

This is really difficult to put down concisely, it concerns a (just) 16 year old boy in my family. No one in the family seems to know what to do. A couple of years ago he began to be interested in Judaism. Now 2 years later he is obsessed. He claims he is Jewish (he isn't), he attends a school which is sympathetic, actually he's stopped going to school. He's left the parental home and for a while lived with his Granny. Now he seems to be moving around several orthodox Jewish families in Stamford Hill. He's changed his name by deed poll to a Jewish sounding name and now is saying he is going to Israel to study in a seminary. He had a social worker, but now he's 16 they've lost interest. Any ideas?

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Foreveratodds · 02/05/2014 16:19

The symbolic circumcision is for men who are already circumcised. Otherwise it is the full monty I'm afraid. In hospital conditions of course! !!
Of course there is nothing odd about wanting to be jewish. It's the hasidic thing that is quite uncommon.

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