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Embracing the Covenant: Converts to Judaism Talk about Why & How

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I had this book posted to England where I was spending my year abroad. Part of the reason why I was looking forward to that time in England was the opportunity to find out whether Judaism was what I wanted in my life. This book helped immensely and gave me many thoughts to pursue in conversation with friends and my rabbi. I can only recommend it to people who contemplate conversion.

The stories in this book are sometimes hauntingly beautiful. One woman expressed my thoughts so well that I read her story aloud at my bat mitzvah. This is truly a book for making connections.

This book is flat-out terrible. The writing is poor, it seems like no one ever bothered editing it, and the contributions from the various converts are at best incoherent. Each chapter is supposed to be the "story" of a different convert, but one chapter is a stream-of-consciousness random thoughts about the sunrise, another is a pretty incoherent back-and-forth between conversion and loving your parents. It is completely unsuccessful in presenting a clear rationale for conversion or frankly, even presenting an interesting story or two. Awful.

This book will sit prominently in my living room. I want everyone i know to read this book.