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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any converts here?  For many years I’ve felt inexplicably drawn to the religion.  Yesterday I picked up “Choosing a Jewish Life” by Anita Diamant and am reading with interest.

What books/resources are recommended?  I’m nervous to start attending services but know that will be a natural next step.  Many thanks in advance.[/quote]

I'm not sure you realize what you're getting into. Being drawn to the religion is not seen as a credible reason to convert to Judaism.[/quote]
What [i]is[/i] a credible reason? [not OP][/quote]

Marriage and clear commitment to the community. Like another PP says Judaism is an ethnicity more than a religion. It's very different from Christianity.[/quote]

Please don’t try to tell Jews about what our (many and varied) communities “see as valid.”   There many be individual Jews who feel as you describe, but in my experience they tend to be folks who don’t know much (or any) Hebrew and don’t know or observe Jewish religious law. So, they denigrate the religion because they don’t know anything about it, and they claim Judaism is an ethnicity.  In my experience, almost all Jews are very accepting of converts.  This is particularly true of Orthodox people with respect to converts who study and observe.  The orthodox synagogue I used to attend  was very, very accepting of converts, and had several who were super active in weekly services - like a professor who converted in his 60s and could beautifully sight-read haftarahs, and would be the default maftir if nobody else did it. [/quote]

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