Up to one-third of Orthodox converts and two-thirds of Conservative converts choose Judaism for this reason, according to rabbis involved in conversion programs. Conversion may be unnecessary if ...

Individuals from Christian backgrounds, descendants of those forcefully converted during Inquisition times, drawn to Judaism, ...

(This is part of a special JTA report on conversion in America. Read our other pieces about who’s converting to Judaism in the AJP category Religion and Jewish Life, and about the 10 questions about ...

At first glance, Orthodox Jewish law might seem pretty clear-cut ... known as the Shulchan Aruch makes clear that a prospective convert whose penis has been amputated may convert without circumcision.

For several decades now, Jews have participated in Jewish-Christian dialogue ... in the view of many Orthodox Jews, is a missionary one: the hope to convert Jews to the true faith. [T]he press [has] ...

No surprise to see Trump invite an Orthodox rabbi to Washington, D.C., even while they make up a small percentage of Jews in America.

This sparked the creation of Torah Tropical, a documentary that follows a family of Colombian converts to Orthodox Judaism – also ... and undergo another conversion in Israel, allowing them ...