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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 ...
Between 1648 and 1649, a large-scale uprising of Cossacks and Ukrainian peasants led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky swept through the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the area of today's Ukraine. In the course of the fighting, there were many Jewish casualties, and many Jewish communities were destroyed. A large number also converted to Eastern Orthodoxy.
Converted to Judaism [486] Rosanna Arquette: 1959– American actress, film director, and film producer [487] Ellen Barkin: 1954– American actress [488] Roseanne Barr: 1952– American actress, writer, talk-show host and comedian Roseanne [489] Steven Bauer: 1956– Cuban-born American actor Ray Donovan, Scarface: Robby Benson: 1956–
The conversion of the Jews plays a part in dispensationalist thinking. Hal Lindsey, one of the most popular American promoters of dispensationalism, has written in The Late Great Planet Earth that per Ezekiel , after Jews fight off a "Russian" invasion, Jews will see this as a miracle and convert to Christianity. [13]
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross – Jewish parents; conversions to Islam then Christianity. [8] Newt Gingrich – Lutheran to Baptist to Catholic; Dawn Eden Goldstein – Raised in a Reform Jewish household; experienced being "born-again" to become a Christian, initially as Protestant and, many years later, was eventually received into the Catholic Church.
Luca Lionello: being an atheist for 40 years, this Italian actor converted when he was part of the cast of the 2004 epic drama The Passion of the Christ, playing Judas Ischkariot; William Lockhart: first member of the Oxford Movement to convert and become a Catholic priest [241] James Longstreet: Confederate general turned Republican "scalawag ...
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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 ...