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To my understanding, the Syrian Jewish community of New York adheres to an "Edict" forbidding marriage to a convert. If the Torah tells us 36 times to love the convert where did this communal decree come from?

We know that moshiach will descend from Ruth. So many others in Jewish history are geirim. Was there an event or specific situation that prompted this community to not allow marriage to geirim. Does anyone know the background on that? Thank you.

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    how do you know there is a sephardic minhag of not marrying geirim?
    – Tamir Evan
    Apr 4, 2022 at 1:44
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    This is only a thing in [much of] the Syrian community, but anyway loving them doesn't mean you have to marry them.
    – Double AA ♦
    Apr 4, 2022 at 2:19
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    Yes i heard the same about Syrian community, and the reason I was told was that wealthy syrians would pressure the rabbis to convert non Jewish women, they wanted to marry, even though the reason for the conversion was only to permit the marriage and not becouse they purely want to be Jewish
    – hazoriz
    Apr 4, 2022 at 2:48
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    You should update your question to reflect the fact this is true only for a small portion of the Sephardic community - it is absolutely not correct for the majority of it. Treating Sephardim as a united group is unawareness of the breadth of customs across Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Yemen, Iran, etc.
    – mbloch
    Apr 4, 2022 at 3:16
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    @shoshana I'm not married to an Italian. Does that mean I don't love Italians? Welcoming them and teaching them Torah is how most people love most other people. Very few of the people you love do you marry.
    – Double AA ♦
    Apr 4, 2022 at 14:12

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