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Jun 3, 2021, 7:31 AM

Conversion students are asking me if it’s safe to become Jewish. This is what I tell them.

A tourist wears a necklace with a Star of David. November 30, 2012. Photo by Louis Fisher/Flash90.

To become Jewish is to become heir to a history and a way of being in the world. When bad things happen, there’s nowhere I would rather be than with my Jewish family

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Rabbi Ruth Adar is executive director of HaMaqom|The Place in Berkeley, California.