Converts – The Journey of Becoming Jewish

The Journey of Becoming Jewish

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What about Judaism is so compelling to a person, that they are willing to turn their lives upside down to join the Jewish people?

Converts: The Journey of Becoming Jewish follows several non-Jews from around the world as they go through the conversion process. Diana from Costa Rica found out about her Spanish-Portuguese Jewish roots from a high school genealogy project. Adam from Toronto was raised as a Pentecostal Christian but started questioning his beliefs as a teenager. Bianka from Warsaw wanted community and an intellectual approach to spirituality.

All of our characters are on a journey of self-discovery and negotiating their relationships with family, friends and significant others. All are searching for identity and connection. Through following their conversion process, we are vicariously exposed to a range of Jewish ideas and practices. Along the way we get a chance to meet their teachers and guides and the community that they seek to join.

Meet the

Characters

Bianka

Bianka grew up in the town of Radom, Poland. She is studying for her PhD in chemistry at the University of Warsaw. She became disillusioned in her teens and began exploring other religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, until she finally ended up choosing Judaism.

Adam

Adam is a student at York University in Toronto where he is completing a degree in economics, with an eye toward law school. He began questioning his faith in his late teens and, being well-versed in the Bible, he decided to look into its original source – Judaism.

Dyana

Dyana was married and has a 16-year-old daughter named Galilee. She ran a successful eco-construction company in Costa Rica. During high school, she found a distant link to her Spanish-Portuguese Jewish roots. Dyana studied on her own for nine years, until she found a conversion program in Israel.