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Meg Keene is a bestselling author and novelist. She founded the groundbreaking online publication A Practical Wedding. She currently resides in Northern California, with her husband and two kids.

Immersion in a ritual bath is required for conversion to Judaism under Jewish law. (Getty Images)
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For this I became a Jew? Yes, for exactly this I became a Jew.

Meg Keene (Courtesy) by Meg Keene June 4, 2025June 4, 2025

(JTA) — In keeping with Jewish tradition that makes no differentiation between those who are born Jews and those who become them, I rarely talk about being a convert. But […]

Rachel Goldberg, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, sits next to a poster of her son on May 29, 2024. (Ahikam Seri/AFP via Getty Images)
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From Rachel Goldberg, we heard the piercing cry of Jewish motherhood

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