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(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 listeners would ...

“To be stringent in the laws of conversion is to be lenient on assimilation.” This clever play on halakhic lingo is the brainchild of Rabbi Haim Amsellem, this generation’s leading rabbinic scholar on ...

— Yaakov Thompson, a popular Conservative rabbi in South Florida who was born Protestant and converted to Judaism in college, died suddenly at 61. Thompson’s family said the rabbi died of a heart ...

Shmuly Yanklowitz, popular Orthodox rabbi and columnist for the Jewish Week, revealed in a Sunday New York Times opinion piece that he is a convert. The article, entitled "Judaism Must Embrace the ...

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 ...

Sarah Burris is a long-time veteran of political campaigns, having worked as a fundraiser and media director across the United States. She transitioned into reporting while working for Rock the Vote, ...

(RNS) — The festival commemorates when God gave the Torah, and with it, both spiritual freedom and responsibility, to the Israelites on Mount Sinai, a pivotal moment in the Jewish story. Many converts ...