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I lost my conversion certificate. Now what?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler August 24, 2021

Dear Dawn: Many years ago, under the guidance of a Conservative rabbi in Queens, New York, I converted to Judaism. My records have been lost and no one connected with […]

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Posted inReligion

Conversion students are asking me if it’s safe to become Jewish. This is what I tell them.

Rabbi Ruth Adar by Rabbi Ruth Adar and JTA June 3, 2021
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Posted inSports

49ers draft Jew of color to tackle diversity

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 13, 2021May 13, 2021
Two journalists in love: Nellie Bowles (left) and fiancee Bari Weiss.
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S.F.-raised journalist’s path to Judaism started on a date with Bari Weiss

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert March 2, 2021October 8, 2025
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut presides over the high court in Jerusalem, March 19, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
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Israeli Supreme Court rules state must grant citizenship to non-Orthodox Jewish converts in Israel

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 1, 2021March 1, 2021
Tricia Creason-Valencia outside MACLA, a Latinx arts center in San Jose.
Posted inCulture

Q&A: She’s helping Latino kids in San Jose find a voice in media arts

by Liz Harris February 25, 2021March 2, 2021
Gugulethu Moyo is the new executive director of the Tucson Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center. (Illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel)
Posted inU.S.

New leader of Tucson’s Holocaust museum is a genocide survivor herself

by Phyllis Braun and JTA February 4, 2021February 8, 2021
(Photo/JTA-Tzahiv-Getty Images; design by Grace Yagel)
Posted inFirst Person

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

Caleb A. Guedes-Reed by Caleb Guedes-Reed and JTA January 25, 2021
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Posted inMixed & Matched

How do I tell my Catholic parents that I don’t plan to have Christmas?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler October 22, 2020October 22, 2020
Mayyim Hayyim, a community mikvah in Newton, Massachusetts, closed its doors to prevent coronavirus transmission. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Mayyim Hayyim)
Posted inMixed & Matched

‘I can’t finish my conversion because of Covid’

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler June 11, 2020

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