Class 26. 4/21 Conversion to Judaism
Michael J. Broyde and Mark Goldfeder, “Who Should Be a Jew? Conversion in the Diaspora Download Who Should Be a Jew? Conversion in the Diaspora,” in Who Is a Jew? 141–153.
Rubenstein, Rabbinic Stories, ch. 29, “Hillel, Shammai and Converts: Virtues and Theological Basics Download Hillel, Shammai and Converts: Virtues and Theological Basics (Bavli Shabbat 31a), 181–185.
Bethany S. Mandel, “A Bill of Rights for Jewish Converts Links to an external site.,” The Times of Israel, October 20, 2014.
How do the approaches to converts delineate how Jews think and have thought about the boundaries of Jewishness?