Leonard, someone should have told your guest tha there is no such thing as being a "Jew by choice." Only the Orthodox Rabbinate in Israel determines Who is a Jew. Just like the chiefs and other members of the Navajo or other "indian" tribes determine who is a Navajo or who is an Apache or who is a Cheyenne. Membership in any TRIBE is determined by the law keepers and shamans of that tribe. Jews are a tribe, and this nonsense of liberal Jews adopting whomever and then trying to turn them into Jews is WRONG, sick and against Mosiac Law. And most importantly, unnecessary as Jews do no evangelize or preach that theirs is the "only true path." Every tribe has the right to its own path as far as Judaism is concerned.