conversion

Hulu’s ‘The Honorable Shyne’ documents the Jewish rapper’s beef with Diddy and new life as a politician in Belize

Moses Michael Levi Barrow rediscovered his Jewish roots in prison and moved to Jerusalem for a time after his release.

Illustration of two men studying texts in prison

2 incarcerated men wanted to convert to Judaism. This rabbi helped them do it.

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

New York Nosh

How a small challah-baking business is building Jewish community in Astoria, Queens

With his cottage challah bakery Bread of Idleness, Cody Butler is bringing top-notch Jewish breads and a bit of yiddishkeit to a diverse Western Queens community.

Global

Are too many Germans converting to Judaism? The debate is roiling Germany’s Jewish community.

United States

Rabbi Stephen Slater talks a lot about God. He credits his Baptist missionary parents.

Ideas

Shortly after I began converting to Judaism, I found myself in a hot tub full of neo-Nazis

Ideas

My rabbis taught me to keep distance from my non-Jewish family. As an adult, I’m learning to love them again.

Ideas

I converted through Reform Judaism. Stop telling me I’m not a Jew.

Global

Princess Diana’s niece converting to Judaism before marriage to fashion tycoon

Global

Church of England says centuries of Christian anti-Semitism led to the Holocaust

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