At 81, frail of body but sharp-tongued and wise, Rabbi Schulweis has made it his mission to preach the gospel of conversion to the Jews. That is we, as individuals and as a people, must seek and embrace converts. Doing so will not only improve Jewish life but improve our own lives as Jews.
When friendly strangers find out I\’m a convert to Judaism, they want to know why.
And I\’ve learned to be ready.
I have two stories: One is
respectable, and one involves comic books and video games.
Rabbi Maller has written dozens of articles on conversion during his 30 years at Temple Akiba, Culver City. In \”God, Sex and Kabbalah\” (Samuel Weiser), he notes that many converts to Judaism were found to have Jewish ancestors.\n\n\n
Like most converts, the Hardins take the precepts of their adopted faith more seriously than many born to it, and they display an intense hunger for knowledge, as if to make up for what they missed during their childhoods.\n
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