One of Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh’s favorite duties as Vice President, Director of the Maas Center and Miller Introduction to Judaism program at American Jewish University is welcoming newcomers. “Since ...

Corey Sheffa, who lives in a small Tennessee city near the Kentucky border, expects to formally convert to Judaism later this year. He wears a yarmulke, keeps kosher, and observes Shabbat. Shortly ...

(JNS) Staci Blumenfeld is deeply curious about Judaism. She finally got to dig in over the past six weeks. “I have long had the desire to understand who I am, where my ancestors come from, the value ...

This course will introduce you to the foundational components of the Jewish Professional Leadership degree: a) an introduction to Jewish communal life and its organization, b) thinking about ...

Rabbi Adam Mintz told JTA that in the weeks immediately following Oct. 7, he and his colleagues “have found an explosion of people who are interested in beginning to explore conversion.” (JTA) — ...

In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap. In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call ...

Sometimes you meet people who you don’t know, but it turns out you have many friends in common. Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Schwartz, z”l, seems to have been the type of person with whom I would share ...

(JTA) Jasamine Hodge started converting to Judaism eight years ago, but it wasn’t until Oct. 7 that she set a date to finish. As a child and teen, Hodge, 33, who lives in Kansas City, had grown up ...