Conversion
With some help from a congregant.
A new book traces the history of conversion from Judaism.
Two reform-minded rabbis discuss.
“We started to understand there’s a difference between Messianic Judaism and Judaism, and some of us chose to turn to Judaism.”
Emerson Swift Mahon, born a Christian, left his native Grenada for Canada in 1912 in search of higher education and harboring a deeply-felt interest in. . .
The British journalist Julie Burchill has never shied away from expressing her sympathy for Jews and the Jewish state. Quitting the Guardian in 2004, she. . .
Jews first came to Indonesia from the Netherlands and South America. Many eventually converted to Christianity, although even many of these converts continued to maintain. . .
The Bene Israel have lived in western India for over 900 years. The film Next Year in Bombay, written and produced by Jonas Parienté and. . .
Faced with dwindling numbers, should American Jewry be actively seeking converts? A leader of Conservative Judaism says yes.
A new genetic study of Ashkenazi Jews traces their maternal lineage to Europe rather than the Near East—suggesting, if true, that Jewish men married local women.
Can a new Knesset lobby resolve the dilemma of the almost quarter-million Israelis who are not recognized as Jews by religious authorities but identify themselves. . .