<p>Rabbi Michael Gilboa, Rabbi Juan Mejia, Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz, and Rabbi Noah Ferro discuss their insights about conversion to Judaism. What is the best metaphor for conversion? Are converts like newborns, and their rabbis like midwives? Or are converts like immigrants, and their rabbis like immigration officers?</p>

Rabbi Michael Gilboa, Rabbi Juan Mejia, Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz, and Rabbi Noah Ferro discuss their insights about conversion to Judaism. What is the best metaphor for conversion? Are converts like newborns, and their rabbis like midwives? Or are converts like immigrants, and their rabbis like immigration officers?

Metaphors of Conversion

Michael Gilboa, Juan Mejia, Esther Hugenholtz, and Noah Ferro discuss conversion to Judaism from their perspectives as rabbis who themselves converted. Special guests bring their insights about Judaism, the conversion process, and what it means to join the Jewish people.

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Metaphors of Conversion

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