Embracing the Covenant: Converts to Judaism Talk About Why & How
This book is a practical and inspirational companion to the conversion process for Jews-by-Choice and their families. Written primarily for the person considering the choice of Judaism, it provides highly personal insights from over 50 people who have made this life-changing decision.
But it also will speak to their families—the non-Jewish family that provided his or her spiritual beginnings and the Jewish "family" which receives the convert—and help them understand why the decision was made.
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Book details
- Author
- Allan Berkowitz, Patti Moskovitz
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- converting to Judaism · Jewish spirituality · Jewish traditions · Jewish family life · personal testimonies · religious covenant · Jews by Choice
- ISBN-13
- 9781879045507 (Paperback)9781683360445 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI ALLAN L. BERKOWITZ is a rabbi and nonprofit executive ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1985, with a Master’s Degree in Education from Columbia University Teachers College and a B.A. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the co-author of Embracing the Covenant: Converts to Judaism Talk About Why & How and author of The Psalms: A Guide for the Heart and Soul.
Berkowitz served as a congregational rabbi for approximately twelve to fourteen years before spending seventeen years as Executive Director of the Environmental Volunteers, an environmental education organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He later served as chief operating officer of Faith in Action East Bay, a community organizing social justice nonprofit.
Allan lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.