Feshbach is part of a small group of mainstream Jewish organizations and individuals that promote the idea of active religious outreach to non-Jews despite a prevalent taboo against the practice. There is a broad spectrum of this kind of outreach — some do it with the express purpose of converting non-Jews; others, like Feshbach, are open to that possibility and still others just want to expose non-Jews to what they see as the beauty of Jewish teachings and values.
“We need to grow Judaism,” said Ellen Gerecht, director of the National Center to Encourage Judaism, a group which has helped fund such work. “The only way for Judaism to survive in the Diaspora is for us to bring in those from the outside.”
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