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• Preface
• Introduction
• Orach chaim : daily, sabbath, and holiday laws
• Yoreh deah: laws of kashrut, idolatry, loan interest, nidda, vows, honoring ones's parents and the elderly, charity, circumcision of sons, conversion, sacred writings, agrarian living, mourning
• Even haezer : procreation, permitted and forbidden marriage partners, celebrating weddings, marital obligations and rights, divorce, levirate marriage and release, raped or seduced child
• Choshen mishpat : rabbinic courts, loans, oppressing/cheating/overpricing, gifts causa mortis, objects lost and found, inheritance, paying monies owed
• Conclusion.

"While the topic of conversion in Judaism has been extensively covered, no one has explored the particular laws related to after conversion. [This book] explores many topics and questions that revolve around the life of a Jewish convert. Such topics include the place of a convert in a Jewish community according to Jewish law, the treatment of a convert in respect to acceptance and discrimination, and providing affirmative incentives to converts."-- Back cover.

• Foreword by Bob Saget Acknowledgments Introduction: The Inspiration for Becoming Jewish
• Chapter 1: Finding New Meaning Making the Transition What Defines a Jew? Why is Culture so Important? Why Convert? What Is Involved? Choosing a Hebrew Name Getting Started Rabbi Shopping Finding Community Online The Right Rabbi for You Jewish Denominations Do You Need to Learn Hebrew? Will Your Children Need to Convert? Using this Book
• Chapter 2: Belonging vs. Believing Belief-Based Religion Belonging-Based Religion Will Jews Accept You as a Convert? Will Family and Friends Accept You? What Does "Religious" Mean? Labels Belong on Products More than a Religion Your Jewish Inheritance Room Developing Your Own Jewish Customs
• Chapter 3: Telling Family & Friends Topics Considered Taboo Be Honest Find a Neutral Setting Gaining Support Do it for You More Than You Bargained For Those Awkward Moments Start Living It
• Chapter 4: Hitting the Books Choosing Your Path Seeing with a Jewish Set of Eyes TMI! Just Do It
• Chapter 5: Learning an Ancient Language Really? Is Hebrew Required? Language of the Torah Curl Up with the Dead Sea Scrolls Help! But It Looks So Different Your Secret Decoder Ring Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained Worth the Effort
• Chapter 6: Honoring Shabbat Rock Star Status Making Shabbat Yours The Three Traditional Shabbat Rituals A Blessing for Children Do-It-Yourself Shabbat Weekly Farewell Party
• Chapter 7: Holidays & Holy Days Early or Late? More Holidays than You Can Shake a Lulav At Make Your Sukkah Shine The Miracle of Religious Freedom The Three-Hour Meal
• Chapter 8: Facing the Bet Din Behind the Bet Din Use "We" Terms Don't Sweat It Assessing Your Intent Cramming Sold Separately
• Chapter 9: Mikvah and More The Mikvah Modesty Takes a Backseat Conversion Ceremony Circumcision Hatafat Dam Brit Brit Milah Brit Milah for Newborns Calming Conversion Jitters
• Chapter 10: Tradition Why Tradition Matters More Than a Nursery Tying the Knot R.I.P. Sacred Rituals & Customs Knowing What's Important Cornerstones of Judaism Making it Work
• Chapter 11: Living Single The Many Meanings of "Family" Finding Your Own "Jewish Mother" Don't Amputate Your Past
• Chapter 12: All This for a Wedding? Turning Two Into One More Than Art Four Poles and Some Frabic Walking in Circles Getting to "I Do" Sheva Berachot (Seven Blessings) The Plain Gold Band The Groom Wore Steel-Toed Shoes Getting a Get
• Chapter 13: Raising Jewish Kids Hang On! Help is On Its Way Q & A Live It Yourself
• Chapter 14: Adult B'nai Mitzvah and Beyond Rite of Passage Facing Your Fears What Can You Expect? Adult B'nai Mitzvah Syllabus-Conservative What Else Can You Learn? Virtual Learning
• Chapter 15: Is Madonna Jewish? Understanding the Roots What is Kabbalah? The Five Layers Kabbalah is Jewish Kabbalah is NOT Judaism Trying Pop Kabbalah Is Kabbalah for You?
• Chapter 16: Do They Hate You Too? Centuries of Jew Hating Eyes Wide Open Should You Be Concerned? Is There a Bull's-Eye on Your Back? Fertile Grounds for Antisemites How to Avoid Haters What Can You Do About It? Reporting Hate Crimes & Beyond You're Not Alone Wave of Holocaust Denial Finding the Jewish Activist in You Show Your Chutzpah
• Chapter 17: Everyone Matters The Gloved One Why So Many Lawyers? Making it Your Own
• Chapter 18: Children of Israel It Just Feels Different Bill Said it Best Peace of Pipedream? Act for Israel All Corners of the Globe Am Yisrael Chai!
• Appendix I: Thirty-Nine Types of Work Forbidden On Shabbat
• Appendix II: Conversion Course-Orthodox Glossary Resources Index.
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Becoming Jewish is the first all-inclusive, step-by-step guide to converting to Judaism. Steven Carr Reuben, a highly respected rabbi, and Jennifer S. Hanin, a convert to the faith, lead readers through the conversion process, providing the right mix of advice, resources and humor for the journey. Jews-to-be often find the steps to Judaism foreign, complex, and mysterious. From learning an ancient language, to entering the mikvah (ritual bath), to choosing a Hebrew name, to circumcision, to appearing before a bet din (Jewish court), becoming a Jew is anything but quick and easy. In this engaging and accessible guide, Reuben and Hanin offer practical wisdom for every step of conversion, including: *telling family and friends *selecting a denomination *choosing a rabbi *understanding Jewish rituals *celebrating Jewish holidays *putting aside childhood holidays *keeping ties to the past *advice on weddings, raising kids, and more Throughout, the authors focus on developing a healthy spiritual life, while helping readers understand what it means to be Jewish, absorb Jewish teachings, and live a Jewish life.
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• Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Welcoming the Stranger: The Place of Converts in Jewish Life One: Your People Shall Be My People: Converts in the Biblical Era Two: Over Land and Sea: The Rise of Proselytism in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Period Three: A Fence Around the Torah: Converts in the Talmudic Era Four: The Time of Religious Struggle: Converts in the Medieval Era Five: Leaving the Ghetto: Converts From the Jewish Enlightenment to the Present Six: The Golden Land: Converts in the United States Seven: The Call of Zion: Converts in Israel Eight: Lessons From the History of Conversion to Judaism Glossary References Index.
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From the biblical story of Ruth to the star conversion of Elizabeth Taylor, Converts to Judaism tells the stories of people who have converted to Judaism throughout history. The book introduces readers to origins of Judaism and shares the first conversion stories of the people who helped the early Jewish faith grow. Subsequent chapters trace the trajectory of Judaism through the ages while highlighting the stories of converts-both well-known and lesser-known-and how they shaped the tradition. The book includes not only the story of Warder Cresson, who was put on trial for insanity after converting to Judaism, but also famous celebrities who became Jewish such as Marilyn Monroe and Sammy Davis, Jr. Written by a noted expert on the conversion process, Converts to Judaism serves as a unique resource to people considering the challenging path of conversion and an illustration of the important, and sometimes surprising, role Jewish converts have always played in Jewish life.
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• Prologue : the naked truth on Tel Aviv's beaches
• Introduction : taking winking seriously
• Part 1: The conversion mission
• National mission
• State workers
• Part 2: The conversion performance
• Legible signs
• Dramaturgical entanglements
• Biographical scripts
• Epilogue : winking like a state.

Religious conversion is often associated with ideals of religious sincerity. But in a society in which religious belonging is entangled with ethnonational citizenship and confers political privilege, a convert might well have other motives. Over the last two decades, mass non-Jewish immigration to Israel, especially from the former Soviet Union, has sparked heated debates over the Jewish state's conversion policy and intensified suspicion of converts' sincerity. When the State Winks carefully traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion to highlight the collaborative labor that goes into the making of the Israeli state and its Jewish citizens.In a rich ethnographic narrative based on fieldwork in conversion schools, rabbinic courts, and ritual bathhouses, Michal Kravel-Tovi follows conversion candidates-mostly secular young women from a former Soviet background-and state conversion agents caught between the contradictory demands of their nationalist and religious commitments. She complicates the popular perception that conversion is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat the converts' pretenses of faith as real. Instead, she demonstrates how their interdependent performances blur any clear boundary between sincere and fraudulent conversions. Alongside detailed ethnography, Kravel-Tovi develops new ways to think about the complex connection between religious conversion and the nation-state. Kravel-Tovi emphasizes how state power is created and managed through "winking"-the subtle exchanges and performances that animate everyday encounters between state and citizen. In a country marked by tension between official religiosity and a predominantly secular Jewish population, winking permits the state to save its Jewish face.
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In "The Choice", Arnine Cumsky Weiss and Carol Weiss Rubel present the stories of forty-five converts to Judaism. These reflective narratives demonstrate that no two converts' experiences are alike, yet most share some common characteristics: a spiritual uneasiness, fear, doubt, and a gradual development of spiritual and intellectual understanding and acceptance of conversion. The stories in "The Choice" will be a source of inspiration and affirmation for anyone who is struggling with a conversion decision or knows someone who is.
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• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction : methods and models
• "Like an Israelite in every respect" : the conversion procedure
• The babylonian "mini-tractate" of conversion
• The invention of the conversion court
• Immersion and circumcision
• Sinai as conversion : acceptance of the commandments
• "Like a scab" : negative attitudes toward converts and conversion
• "Like a scab" : a babylonian expression
• Converting missionary images
• Hillel and shammai revisited
• Hillel and shammai : comparison charts
• "Like a newborn" : the erasure of the convert's past
• Newborn : conversion and the severing of kinship
• The severing of maternal relations in palestinian sources
• A palestinian concept in a geonic text?
• Newborn : from forgiveness of sins to a new personality
• Contextualizing the talmud "against its will"
• Dominantization : the rabbinic conversion of judaism
• Legalization, rabbinization and the shift of authority
• Genealogical anxiety and the body : the Iranian context
• Conclusion : a newborn, an israelite, a scab : the babylonian convert
• The conversion mini-tractate : annotated texts
• The preceding narrative
• The first baraita : the requirement for both immersion and circumcision
• The second baraita : the case of circumcision without immersion
• The third baraita : witnessed conversion
• The fourth baraita : the conversion court
• The fifth baraita : the procedure of conversion
• The sixth baraita : a theological reflection on the suffering of converts
• The meimrot of Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba in the name of Rabbi Yohanan
• Conversion at night and the conversion court
• Bibliography
• Index of sources
• Index of names
• Index of subjects.

In this volume, Moshe Lavee offers an account of crucial internal developments in the rabbinic corpus, and shows how the Babylonian Talmud dramatically challenged and extended the rabbinic model of conversion to Judaism. The history of conversion to Judaism has long fascinated Jews along a broad ideological continuum. This book demonstrates the rabbis in Babylonia further reworked former traditions about conversion in ever more stringent direction, shifting the focus of identity demarcation towards genealogy and bodily perspectives. By applying a reading-strategy that emphasizes late Babylonian literary developments, Lavee sheds critical light on a broader discourse regarding the nature and boundaries of Jewish identity.
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"Yahudilikte soyun sadece anneden geçtiği, sonradan Yahudi olmanın imkânsızlığı gibi yaygın bir kanaat vardır. Bu kanaat tarihsel olarak doğru olmakla birlikte teolojik gerçeğe muhaliftir. Yahudilik erken dönemlerinde yabancılara kapalı olmuş, sadece İbranilerin/İsrailoğulları'nın ulusal kültürü olarak algılanmıştır. Soydaşlık bilinci esas olduğu için bu değerler sistemi öğretilmekle kazanılacak bir olgu olarak görülmemiştir. Bu yüzden eski İbranilerin zihninde din yayma fikri olmamış, yabancılar Hz. Musa'nın getirdiklerini kabul etseler bile "hidayete ermiş" olarak algılanmamış, yine yabancı görülmüşlerdir. Amos (M.Ö. VIII. yy) zamanından itibaren dile getirilen evrenselcilik söylemleri Babil Sürgünü (M.Ö. VI. yy) sırasında daha da sıklaşıp yabancıların da bu inanca kabul edilmelerinin önü açılmış, fakat Ezra'nın (M.Ö. V. yy) reformu bunun önüne geçmiştir. Helenler'le tanıştıktan sonra İsrailoğulları sahip oldukları değerler sistemini öğretilebilir olarak algılamışlardır. Temelde ikna yoluyla, egemen oldukları bölgelerde zorla bu inancı yabancılara kabul ettirmeye çalışmışlardır (M.Ö. II. yy). Yahudilik inancının kurumsal olarak yabancılara açılması, M.S. II. yy.'da gerçekleşmiştir. Sonradan Hıristiyan ve Müslüman egemenliğinde yaşayan Yahudiler dinlerini yayma fırsatı bulamamış, böylece "Yahudi olunmaz, Yahudi doğulur" görüşü yaygınlık kazanmıştır."--Back cover.

• Le noir
• Le Noir-Noir
• Photo 1 : A Dakar en 5748 (1988)
• Le Noir-Français
• Le Noir-Sioniste
• Le Noir-Converti
• Le Noir-Juif
• Le francais
• Français-Noir
• Français-Français
• Français-Sioniste
• Photo 2 : Rassemblements de soutien à l'opération militaire israélienne
• Français-Converti
• Français-Juif
• Le sioniste
• Sioniste-Noir
• Sioniste-Français
• Photo 3 : Lors du Séminaire diplomatique
• Sioniste-Sioniste
• Photo 4 : Stand du Ma'Hon HaMikdach au Salon de la Vie Juive
• Sioniste-Converti
• Sioniste-Juif
• Le converti
• Converti-Noir
• Converti-Français
• Converti-Converti
• Converti-Sioniste
• Photo 5 : Premier colloque du Mouvement Sioniste Africain
• Converti-Juif
• Le juif
• Figure 4 : Les 5 niveaux d'âme.

"La place de converti, au sein du peuple juif, s'habille dans une quantité de situations et de problématiques. Les Juifs gardent une attitude pluriséculaire non prosélyte, garante d'une conversion assumée et constructive pour l'humanité. La narration de ce parcours atypique de Kinshasa, jusqu'aux synagogues parisiennes, offre une réponse massive face à la montée de l'antisémitisme, de l'antisionisme et du communautarisme en France et en Afrique. Entre pleurs, rires, et vérités dérangeantes. Ce livre, d'une richesse spirituelle et humaine incroyable, est un véritable exhausteur de foi pour chaque juif et non-juif. Vous vivrez les aventures rocambolesques de Marah, via le spectre d'analyse d'un des grands Maîtres du peuple juif : le Ari HaKadoch. Ce livre vous permettra de décoder, en partie, les mystères qui entourent les convertis dans le judaïsme, et surtout de mieux comprendre les trajectoires sociales, politiques et spirituelles de cet "Avra-ham des temps modernes", antidote vivant de l'intolérance et de la haine gratuite."--P. [4] of cover.