That must change,” Arnold Eisen, the chancellor of the movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary, wrote of conversion in a Wall Street Journal column in July. “Why? Because Judaism needs more ...

Converting to Judaism is not easy. It involves many lifestyle changes and about a year of studying. Becoming a Jew is not just a religious change: the convert not only accepts the Jewish faith ...

Corey Sheffa, who lives in a small Tennessee city near the Kentucky border, expects to formally convert to Judaism later this year. He wears a yarmulke, keeps kosher, and observes Shabbat.

I can, however, share what little I do know: There are generally four agreed-upon requirements for conversion to Judaism. One, immersion in a Mikveh, or ritual bath. Two, circumcision or symbolic ...

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Exploring the tradition’s built-in disputation—reasoned differences touching on every conceivable subject—I felt that I might have a home in Judaism. The only conversion that would have been ...

“I was like, oh my god, I’m going to mess this up,” she recalls. Converting to Orthodox Judaism is an intense and rigorous process. It involves intimate rituals, intimidating religious ...

(JTA) — When Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp appeared on an episode of the “Judaism Unbound” podcast last year to talk about her new online Jewish conversion class, she didn’t know that two ...

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(JTA) Jasamine Hodge started converting to Judaism eight years ago, but it wasn’t until Oct. 7 that she set a date to finish. As a child and teen, Hodge, 33, who lives in Kansas City, had grown ...