How Choosing Judaism Helped Me Embrace My Black, Bisexual Identity
Every Jew-by-choice’s journey to Judaism is different. And while we share some similarities, our lived experiences...
Can You Convert to Judaism? Yes, and Here Are Five People Who Did.
Since Judaism isn’t a proselytizing religion, and doesn’t seek to convert people who aren’t Jewish, many people...
Becoming a Jew By Choice: 6 Different Stories of Telling Our Families
As a Jew by choice, stepping into the waters of the mikveh to finish my conversion process is forever etched...
Becoming Jewish After 13 Years and Three Attempts
My path to Judaism took 13 years. And while I ended up marrying the first Jewish person I ever met (my now-husband...
Conversion, Identity, Jew by Choice, Marriage, Relationships
Living the Queer, Jewish Parent Life I Dreamt of When I Converted
The decision to convert to Judaism hit me like a thunderbolt and became an all-encompassing need over the course...
Lauren Monaco Makes a Culinary Splash with Peranakan, Italian American and Jewish Fusion Recipes
Lauren Monaco Grossman’s home is “a place where multiple cultures coexist,” she explains. Our new recipe contributor—a...
Conversion, Culture, Food, Identity, Multiracial, Pop Culture
Loving My Mixed Self
What does Loving Day mean to me? The simpler answer may actually be what it doesn’t.
My racial identity and my...
Converting to Judaism and Telling My Catholic Family
Things seemed to be working out great for my wife and me as an interfaith family:...
Conversion, Family, Identity, Parenting, Relationships, Religion
Conversion to Judaism: Frequently Asked Questions
Available in on-screen reading friendly (PDF) and printer-friendly, downloadable (PDF) versions.
For more booklets,...
How I Came to Embrace My Important Role in Judaism
On Saturday, March 10th, 2018, in front of my family and community, I became a bat mitzvah at 33. The service...
Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Conversion, Identity, Jews of Color, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Synagogue
Converting Meant Adding Judaism, Not Losing Japanese
Kristin at her synagogue, Congregation Emanu-el. Credit: Laurel Street Kitchen
On March 22, 2016, I completed...
Not Saying "I Do"
My fiancé and I did not grow up in different religious traditions. She was raised in Detroit as a Christian,...
Christian Jewish Wedding, Conversion, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Planning, Weddings
Why Choosing Love Didn’t Mean Conversion for Me
Although I am the half that’s not Jewish in an interfaith marriage, my husband never put conversion on...
Coming Full Circle
Twelve years ago on a Yom Kippur afternoon, at the request of my rabbi, Steven Silver, I stood on the bimah...
The End of One LGBT Journey is the Beginning of Another
Throughout my life, I was a person in search of a religion to call my own. Born in the United Kingdom to a...
Why I Chose To Be Jewish
When my family moved to Pittsburgh, my son was 10 weeks old and my husband was entering into a grueling six-year...
I Don’t Want To Be Jewish Anymore
This article was reprinted with permission from The Forward
The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in...
Patrilineal Descent: Should the Baby be Taken to the Mikveh for Conversion?
Do you know which of the following children would be considered Jewish without going through a conversion according...
Adoption, Babies, Birth Ceremony, Conversion, Identity, Mikveh, Religion
Wade in the Water at Mayyim Hayyim
Well, I went to the water one day to pray.
And my soul got happy and I stayed all day.
[Don’t you know...
Naming Our Fears: When Have We Asked Too Much?
A Muslim man greeted me with “As-salamu alaykum” on Rosh Hashanah morning. Having seen the kufi-style yarmulke...
Anti Semitism, Conversion, Identity, Religion, Wedding Stories, Weddings
Universal Values, Jewish Expressions: Finding Common Ground in an Interfaith Marriage
When I became Jewish, I began seeing homeless people.
I was not unaware of the homeless before I converted to...
Navigating the Narrow Places: Interfaith Arguments
When Shannon and I fight, I assume the worst. We’re going to break up. We’ll never speak again. We’ll be torn...
Conversion, Relationship Challenges, Relationships, Wedding Stories
The New Jew & the Irish Girl Plan a Wedding
“I think I’m converting to Judaism.”
I said it quietly, without making eye contact, as Shannon walked...
Thinking Like a Jew
A family member of my husband’s, whom I’ll call Devorah, recently told me that although I may have converted, “you...
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