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I Chose a Non-Jew--and the Non-Jew Chose JudaismBy Lyssa Friedman
A personal narrative of a woman whose partner converted to Judaism while she remained conflicted.
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Conversion
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My Conversion Story
By Anita DiamantThe personal narrative of a Jewish woman who learned about Judaism with her husband as he prepared for conversion.
Date: 06-11-2007 -
Admiring My Parents' Religious Tolerance
By Rabbi Jim MorganThe personal narrative of man whose family approved of his conversion to Judaism after becoming engaged to a Jewish woman.
Date: 06-11-2007 -
"And Your People Shall Be My People": A Convert Talks about Becoming a Rabbi
By Kari FieldA personal narrative of one woman who enters the conversion process and goes on to find her life’s work as a rabbi.
Date: 05-11-2007 -
Between Intermarriage and Conversion: Finding a Middle Way
By Rabbi Steve GreenbergIn this editorial, Rabbi Greenberg offers a new category between Jew and gentile: the ger toshav; not a convert to Judiasm, but a gentile who actively chooses to live among Jews.
Date: 06-11-2007 -
What to Say to the Rabbi
By Valerie JonesYou don't have to know all the answers when you decide to meet with a rabbi about conversion. In fact, you don't even have to know whether you want to convert.
Date: 02-15-2010 -
My Opinion: Ethnicity is Not Judaism
By David EssexAn opinion/editorial discussing how many converts to the Jewish faith feel that they are unwelcome and that they don’t belong.
Date: 06-11-2007 -
Dear Rabbi: Conversion and Intermarriage
By Rabbi Bradley Shavit ArtsonA professional opinion on the marriage of a converted Jew to a Jew by birth.
Date: 04-09-2007 -
Proactive Conversion as Outreach
By Dr Gary A. TobinAn opinion/editorial article stressing the importance of active conversion when a Jew marries a non-Jew.
Date: 08-01-2012 -
Is Observance Fanaticism?
By Rabbi Bradley Shavit ArtsonA rabbi’s advice to a man whose reform family rejects his "fanatic" Jewish lifestyle.
Date: 06-11-2007 -
Revisiting and Promoting Conversion
By Steven BaymeArticle about negative feelings of interfaith families toward the new push to conversion in both the Reform and Conservative movements.
Date: 06-11-2007
