The saga of my Jewish conversion began twenty-five years ago, when I got engaged to my first husband. He’d grown up in an Orthodox family, and his parents, my future in-laws, were devastated that he ...

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The transition from not being Jewish to feeling and thinking Jewish is mostly a gradual one. In Islam and Christianity God comes first. The proclamation that “Allah is God and Muhammad is his Prophet” ...

Dec. 7 was a special anniversary for me. It had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor Day; the annual Memorial Day for the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Dec. 7, 1974, 50 years ago, was the day on ...