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.

Who’s converting? Spiritual seekers, non-Jews dating Jews, gentiles drawn to Judaism through friends and those who converted through other Jewish denominations. The latter category includes ...

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 ...

They may find themselves thinking about converting. Jennifer Hanin converted to Judaism three years ago. And while going through that process, she found herself longing for a guide that would help ...

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 ...

Did the Khazars convert to Judaism? The view that some or all Khazars, a central Asian people, became Jews during the ninth or tenth century is widely accepted. But following an exhaustive ...

(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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