Conversion

Reason #1 You Know You’re Crazy: You’re Suspicious of Kindness

Reason #1 You Know You’re Crazy: You’re Suspicious of Kindness As any of you converts/converts-in-progress know, the conversion process, despite being an incredibly worthwhile, meaningful, and “religious” experience, can be soul-crushing when well-meaning (or not so well-meaning) Jews try to “discourage” you. Sometimes this discouragement can cross the line over into flat-out rude or cruel. […]

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Reason #201 You Know You’re Crazy: Unpronounceable Hebrew Names

Reason #201 You Know You’re Crazy: You chose a Hebrew name for yourself that you can’t pronounce correctly with any consistency. In my case, I chose Kochava, which has that guttral “ch” sound smack dab in the middle of the word, which is even harder than pronouncing it when it’s at the beginning or end

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Reason #84 You Know You’re Crazy: Orthodox Conversion is EXPENSIVE!

Reason #84 You Know You’re Crazy: An Orthodox Conversion is EXPENSIVE. Really. My conservative conversion cost me nothing other than one required paperback book for my Introduction to Judaism class. I think I bought it on Half.com for 5 bucks. To get to my first meeting with an orthodox beit din, I spent approximately $1,000

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Mandatory Introduction

Here is the mandatory introduction. As any Jewish convert/convert-in-progress knows, when you’re converting to Judaism, sometimes you just wanna know you’re not crazy. This will hopefully help keep me accountable to my learning, as well as sharing those funny little moments when you wonder if you’re crazy. Disclaimer: in all areas of my life, I

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