My Journey to Judaism

I am responding, positively, to two recent articles appearing in these pages: â??Change the status quo on conversionsâ? by Aliza Lavie and â??Jews face a widening riftâ? by Douglas Bloomfield. More particularly, I am praising Lavieâ??s respective support for both the civil marriage bill and the Jewish Agencyâ??s courage to extend its own process of conversions in unreachable communities outside of Israel. Lavieâ??s mission ties into Bloomfieldâ??s concern about the widening gap between American Jews and the continued and unjustified denial by the ultra-Orthodox establishment of Reform and Conservative conversions in the State of Israel.