Conversion

Meet Nasrin Kadri: the Arab Jewish Queen of Israeli Pop Music

Israel’s Mizraḥi Rihanna.

Matti Friedman
Feb. 27 2020 12:01AM

Ultra-Orthodox Control of the Israeli Rabbinate Stands in the Way of Resolving the Conversion Question

Another casualty of the peace process.

David M. Weinberg
Jan. 22 2020 12:01AM

Israel’s Never-Ending Conversion Dilemma

Wink-wink, win-win?

Shlomo Brody
Jan. 14 2020 12:01AM

North America’s First Hebrew Textbook, and the Italian Jewish Convert to Christianity Who Wrote It

Dickdook with Judah Monis.

Rachel Wamsley
Dec. 9 2019 12:01AM

How Renaissance Italy’s Great Jewish Artist Was Forced into Conversion

Salomone de Sesso.

Ariel David
Dec. 6 2019 12:01AM

How a Group of American Jewish Expatriates in Central Mexico Came to Be a Magnet for Conversions

The Jews of San Miguel Allende.

Roslyn Bernstein
April 24 2019 12:01AM

An Ancient Roman Convert to Judaism Who Became a “Mother of the Synagogues”

The catacomb of Beturia Paulina.

Carly Silver
April 22 2019 12:01AM

The Quaker-Turned-Jew Who Briefly Became the First U.S. Consul to Jerusalem

Warder Cresson/ Michael Boaz Israel ben Avraham.

Alan Dowty
March 25 2019 12:01AM

Did Ancient Jews See Themselves as a Religion or as a People?

Then as now, both.

David Goodblatt
Oct. 31 2018 12:01AM

Milton Himmelfarb’s Complex and Idiosyncratic Spirituality

A Jewish intellectual who bucked the general wisdom.

Martha Himmelfarb
Oct. 19 2018 12:01AM

Remembering the Great Jewish Lutheran Sociologist of Religion

On Peter Berger and the Jews.

Abraham Socher
July 10 2018 12:01AM

Can Childhood Conversion Solve Israel’s “Who Is a Jew” Problems?

Halakhic rulings from the diaspora may not always apply well to Israeli realities.

Shlomo Brody
July 5 2018 12:01AM

A Maverick Rabbi Finishes His Magnum Opus

“The most systematic, comprehensive commentary on Maimonides’ code ever produced.”

Allan Nadler
July 2 2018 12:01AM

The Catholic Priest Who Became an Orthodox Jew Thanks to a Secular Zionist Historian

Abraham Carmel.

Shalom Goldman
May 23 2018 12:01AM
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