Jews - Why do you consider all non-Jewish women & female converts to Judaism as...

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Jews - Why do you consider all non-Jewish women & female converts to Judaism as...

..."harlots"? "We have learned by tradition that the term 'harlot' as designated in the Torah means any woman who is not a daughter of Israel (i.e., not born Jewish*), or a daughter of Israel who has had intercourse with a man she is forbidden to marry"

Maimonides
The Book of Holiness
Forbidden Intercourse, Chapter XVIII, Law 1
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=n5gIAQAAIAAJ&q=as+designated+in+the+Torah+means+any+woman+who+is+not+a+daughter+of+Israel&dq=as+designated+in+the+Torah+means+any+woman+who+is+not+a+daughter+of+Israel&hl=en&ei=t2AITcHZHsSwhQe-_tiHDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA

* Professor Israel Shahak of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0795/9507018.htm
 
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