Also, as his sister, I find the comment from Orthodox Jew to Catholic very misleading. He stopped attending services not long after his Bar Mitzvah and never in his adult life followed the lifestyle of the Orthodox Jew, obeying kosher laws, driving on Saturday, etc. And the synagogue he probably attended was either Conservative or Reform. And no matter what he says in this interview, he has left the Jews, he left us long ago. He roundly criticized the Kaddish prayer because it did not mention the dead. Instead of asking why, he just criticized. And I doubt seriously that he obeyed the Jewish custom of going to shul every day to say prayers for a deceased parent or reciting the prayer for either of his parents after they died. I don’t see his conversion as an affimation of faith, but seeking and finding a select goup who agree with his narrow minded views. He couldn’t get that in what he perceived as the Liberal Democratic synagogue.

Hadley was so proud of his Catholic conversion that he failed to tell his only Sister and two living Uncles beforehand. And his eldest Uncle and I don’t think he would have ever told us if a cousin hadn’t discovered it on the web. Some of the Catholics that I have met this past year are not part of this uber conservative branch of the Catholic church. They also think Hadley was a coward for not telling his family beforehand his intentions. We would have not liked this decision but he at least would have given his family the respect they deserved by sitting down and having a dlalogue with them before that. His Uncle Ben was stunned when he learned there was a party to celebrate.

He says he has not left the Jews. I concede that he has. One of the commandments is Honor thy Father and Mother. By converting, he has not only dishonored them but his grandparents and relatives we did not get to meet because they died in the ovens of Auschwitz.