Note to readers • This the first story in a special Salt Lake Tribune series about how and why Utahns convert to various ...

Ari and Lauren Douglas’ wedding had many of the hallmarks of a traditional Jewish ceremony. The couple stood under a traditional covering called a chuppah, as a cantor recited a series of blessings.

The transition from not being Jewish to feeling and thinking Jewish is a gradual one. In Islam and Christianity God comes first. The proclamation that “Allah is God and Muhammad is his Prophet” makes ...

(RNS) — What does a Jewish text message usually say? “Start worrying … details to follow.” That is the way it has been lately. So, Jews — and in this particular case, Reform Jews — are overdue for ...

When Isabella Vinci stepped out of the mikvah on Nov. 11, 2021, she thought she had done everything that would be required to become Jewish. A beit din, or rabbinic court, had approved her conversion ...

Is Erin Foster Jewish in real life? Erin Foster is Jewish in real life and converted to Judaism. She converted to Reform Judaism right before she married her music executive (not rabbi) husband Simon ...

Religious coalition lawmakers frame the bill as a return to halachic conversion standards, while opponents say it would hand the religious establishment greater control over Jewish identity ...

When our kids were 7 and 8 years old, my wife and I realized that our family’s Jewish life, which had always been centered around Shabbat tables and shul, needed a third piece: a Jewish day school. As ...