Written in this way, these headlines — and the articles that follow — perpetuate the idea that people, especially women, convert to Judaism in order to get married. This framing puts ...

The question of what makes a convert touches on the very core of what it means to be a Jew. (Setting aside Kabbalah and Chassidut) The fundamental distinction between a Jew and a gentile is that ...

The disclosure is the latest chapter in the 39-year-old one-time Catholic schoolgirl’s journey through modern American life ...

Those seven children were born before his conversion to Judaism in 2005 in his native United States and subsequent naturalization in Israel. The Law of Return applies to Jews, their spouses ...

In the column, titled “Why the increasing number of converts is a problem for Judaism,” Gerstetter charged that too many people in Germany convert for the wrong reasons — such as to atone ...