Tera Greene had always felt at home among Jews. Her closest friends growing up were Jewish. Her colleagues later in life were Jewish. A formative figure in her life was her grandfather, who developed an affinity for all things Jewish while working at a kosher deli in Brooklyn. And most of her childhood summers were spent at overnight camps, where she learned to value one of the ultimate Jewish-American...
This Shavuot, three American women recount what led them to convert to Judaism
One is a gay activist, the other fell in love, and another hails from the Bible Belt; unlikely stories of finding Judaism in one’s own image.
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Judy Maltz


