Ideas My rabbis taught me to keep distance from my non-Jewish family. As an adult, I’m learning to love them again. As the child of a convert growing up in an Orthodox community, my feelings toward my family were often in conflict with what I was taught and told by my rabbis and teachers.
Ideas Stop saying women convert to Judaism just for marriage People convert to Judaism for myriad reasons, and marriage is just one of them, writes an Orthodox Jewish convert.
Israeli court orders woman converted by private Orthodox court be recognized as Jewish The Chief Rabbinate, however, may not recognize her as Jewish for life-cycle events.