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The saga of my Jewish conversion began twenty-five years ago, when I got engaged to my first husband. He’d grown up in an Orthodox family, and his parents, my future in-laws, were devastated that he ...

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. Shortly ...

Shavuot was an ancient biblical festival celebrating the start of the wheat harvest and the bringing of the first fruits to the Temple. When examining the timeline in the Book of Exodus, the rabbis of ...

Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp’s unusual efforts to achieve a behind-bars conversion is documented in the podcast “Tales of the Unbound.” When Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp appeared on an episode of the “Judaism ...