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: What on earth do Jewish families do when they adopt school-age sons : from gentile backgrounds? : I thought that a person was either born with a Jewish soul or they were not. : A soul does not, I don't think, become Jewish because the body is adopted or : converted... Your thought is not necessarily true. Your own soul is about to undergo a change, to revert again 25+ hours later. (That's the bride we greet in Lekha Dodi, the neshamah yeseirah of Shabbos, the Shabbos Queen.) To answer the original question, I don't know if I would adopt a non-Jewish child old enough to have an awareness of the idea of religion. Regardless of the beris. But perhaps the answer is to do the geirus a year or more after the adoption. Once the child is firmly part of the family, is well along the way of picking up the culture and values, and would *want* to be Jewish. BBii! -mi