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Question
I want to become a Jew, but I love pork, what should I do?
Answer
You simply have to decide what is more important for you, to become a Jew or to eat pork. (The Gemara [Chulin 109] says that there is a kosher substitute for pork, a fish called mocha deshivuta. Today there are kosher vegetable pork substitutes).
Rabbi Moshe Klein
Conservative conversion in 1963 (JTS)
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