My Conversion Journey
Seven Years After Converting, How's It Going?
Recently, I was asked how my Jew-by-choice life was going now seven years since I converted. That's a great question. Here's my answer.
My Conversion Journey
My Conversion Journey
No Such Thing as an Accidental Convert
Becoming a Jew demands a lot of time, study, and soul-searching. So what can you think when a fellow convert suddenly says they're not Jewish anymore?
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Ryan, In These Last Few Hours Before You Are Jewish
These last few hours before you are Jewish are holy. A world ends and a world awaits to begin.
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A Mohel Among Friends
There are many definitions of togetherness. But sharing the same mohel has to be at the tip of the list.
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I, Ruth: On Converts, Community, and Continuation
We are a wide, diverse, and ever-changing people of this covenant. We have a duty to respect each other's privacy. We have an equal duty to hear each other's stories. Most of all, we have a right to tell them.
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She-asani Yisrael: My Conversion Anniversary
One Hebrew year ago, my neshama came home. In gratitude, I mark the anniversary of my mikveh day--the day I officially joined the Jewish people.
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Free to Be Jew and Me
You--yes, you, and no one else--are in charge of your Judaism. Every Jewish choice you will ever be faced with is yours to decide, not your movement's to decide for you. For prospective converts, that includes deciding on the type of Jew you want to be.
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God Was on the Brown Line and I, I Did Not Know
One year ago today, I got on the Chicago 'L' feeling spiritually homeless and got off knowing I would spend the rest of my life living Jewishly. God's whisper comes in many forms. For me, it came on the Brown Line.
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"Do you feel any different?": My Mikveh Day Report
My mikveh day was amazing and surprising in ways I'll never forget. It changed me forever--but it took me all day to figure out just how. Here is my epic look at the day I officially joined the Jewish people.
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Splashdown
When I woke up this morning, Michael Doyle wasn't a Jewish name. It is now. Today, I officially joined the Jewish people.
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Unwritten
There are very few times one is able to say that an event is a once-in-a-lifetime thing and not be exaggerating. Tomorrow morning will be the most important morning of my life. What are you supposed to feel the evening before you become a Jew?
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Perfect
Could my biggest problem be thinking that there's something wrong with everything not being perfect? Nine months of my Jewish conversion journey didn't get me any closer to things being perfect--but got me a lot closer to things being right.