gerim

They [the Israelites] answered: “They were self-made converts [gerim gerurim], who deceitfully converted during the time of Joshua, and were hangers-on [nigrarim] after Israel.”

Rizpah: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

On Sukkot, when we remember the experience of being gerim — sojourners without a permanent home — we commit ourselves to helping others to find permanent homes for their own families.

Sukkot, Immigration, and a Great Poster | Jewschool 2007

Their landless and neither here-nor-there status makes these gerim vulnerable.

Sukkot, Immigration, and a Great Poster | Jewschool 2007

The Israelites did not think of themselves as autochthonous; they were the people of the Covenant, they were constituted a holy community by God's choice; and what they were never to forget was that they had been brought out of the land of Egypt, where they were gerim, strangers.

Love Which Neighbor? Smith, Morton 1980

Ger, gerim are words that denote status, not ethnic origin; the ger, Israelite or not, who lives within a community is a resident alien, a metic, as an Israelite was in Babylon during the exile.

Love Which Neighbor? Smith, Morton 1980

ANON POSTS: The meraglim (spies) and Korach were not gerim.

Your Moral Leader 2009

Her very name, Hagar, could be heard as hagger, meaning “the alien”; Hagar is an alien in Abram’s household as Israel will be aliens, gerim, in a foreign land.

Hagar: Bible. 2009

The Israeli chief rabbinate has all but called the RCA’s gerim sheygitzes, and congregations in my neck of the woods are folding like chairs after a picnic.

That and $3 will get you a cup of coffee | Jewschool 2007