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Question 12.18:
Where can a Gentile learn about Judaism?

A good place to start is Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin's The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1981.

Because major questions about Judaism are answered in this and other similar books, gentiles who post "I'm just curious about why Jews reject my faith" will be assumed to be missionaries until proven otherwise. Too many missionaries have posted, pretending to ask objective, curious questions, only to end up preaching to the group.

Additional information may be found in the General Judaism Reading List, available at http://www.scjfaq.org/rl/gen-index.html.

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