I have to wonder what, exactly, makes a Jewish mother distinct from all other mothers. Is it her neurosis and smothering? Or is it her unconditional love for her kids? As a convert to Judaism, I have a fresh, flattering idea of what it is to be a Jewish mother… doting, caring, nurturing, and always [...]

“No, I didn’t convert for my husband.” It is a sentence that had spilled from my lips countless times. That my motivation for converting was for marriage would be a seemingly safe assumption, given that I had married a Jewish man. But my conversion was the result of a nearly decade long spiritual quest. So [...]