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Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben and Jennifer S. Hanin (foreword by Bob Saget) Becoming Jewish: The Challenges, Rewards, and Paths to Conversion, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011, 272 pp. - Jointly written by a rabbi and a convert to Judaism, this book provides a modern, comprehensive overview of the reasons, practices, and results of Jewish ...
Angela Warnick Buchdahl, American Reform Jewish Rabbi, converted to Orthodox Judaism at age 21. She was not raised within the Buddhist faith; however, her mother is Buddhist so by Orthodox Jewish law she was not considered Jewish, but she was raised Jewish and so by Reform Jewish law she has always been Jewish.
The convert accepts upon themselves the laws, culture, history, and identity of the Jewish people. [19] [20] [21] As such, there is no way to become a Jew without going through a recognized Jewish court. [22] Following the completion of the process, the convert is given several documents which validate the completion of their giyyur (conversion ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism after the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or ...
John M. Oesterreicher: Jewish convert who became a monsignor and a leading advocate of Jewish-Catholic reconciliation [291] William E. Orchard: liturgist, pacifist and ecumenicist; before becoming a Catholic priest he was a Protestant minister [292] Johann Friedrich Overbeck: German painter in the Nazarene movement of religious art [293]
Ammiel Hirsch and Yosef Reinman One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them Schocken, 2003; Jacob Katz's works, including A House Divided: Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry (1998) David Landau. Piety & Power: The World of Jewish Fundamentalism, Hill and Wang ...
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A number of Christian denominations have programs to reach Jews. [8] The JTA, a Jewish news service, conducted an extensive analysis of Christian efforts to convert Jews to Christianity [9] and found that some of the largest evangelical denominations – the Southern Baptists, the Assemblies of God, and the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod – have all increased their efforts to evangelize ...