Forewords
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
Rabbi Lawrence Sebert
Introductions
Carol Weiss Rubel
Arnine Cumsky Weiss
Part One: The Choice in Early Adulthood
Bashert
From an interview with Paul Bardunias
One Hundred Percent
From an interview with Sara Collins
Hal
From an interview with Hillel Toby Markowitz
Better Roads, Better Cars, Stronger Laws
From an interview with Ned O’Malia, PhD
South of the Border
From an interview with Yoshi
The Philadelphia Story
From an interview with William H. McCaulley
A Tugging Soul
By Kevin Cischke
Spinoza’s Reconstructionist
By William Morris
Conversion Is Different When You’ve Grown Up Jewish
By Sue Fishkoff
I Did What I Was
By Alice Levine, MD
Born Identity
By Darcy Rachel Fryer
I Got It!
From an interview with Kristine Henriksen Garroway
Heroic Journey
From an interview with Katherine Gergen-Barnett
My Glass House
By Johanna Karasik
A “Jewish-Looking” Soul
By Danielle Freni
Part Two: The Choice in Adulthood through Midlife
Southern Belle
From an interview with Keleigh Arian
Inheritance
From an interview with Michael Grimshaw
Love at First Sight
From an interview with Jane Hirsch
We Shall do and We Shall Hear
By Suzette Jacobs
Expect Miracles
From an interview with Barbara Pesarchik Jacobsen
In the Beginning
From an interview with Devorah Goodman
The Strangers Among Us
From an interview with Susan Balfus
Understood Backwards—Lived Forwards
From an interview with Susan Kalman and Moriah Mulligan
Return
By Stephen L. Gomes, PhD
Embryonic Journey
From an interview with Vanessa Kaukonen
The Right Thing to Do
From an interview with Edward S. Andrews, Jr.
From Sinai to Scranton: A Twenty-Year Trip
From an interview with Charlotte and Larry Milliken
Not Yet
From an interview with Jenny Schwartz
Commitment
From an interview with Joan Logan
My Father’s Daughter
From an interview with Susanna Bush Manstein
Synchronically Jewish
From an interview with Patricia Power
Keeping Pace
From an interview with Trish McCauley
The Violinist
From an interview with Patti Schwartz
Gas Mask
By Stephanie McMahon-Kaye
Rocking the Cradle
By Carol Weiss Rubel
Part Three: The Choice to Do More
My Journey
From an interview with Tiffany Anderson Gordon
Choosing
By Arthur Van Cleve Lanckton
Our People
By Anne Johnson
The Cantor
From an interview with Angela Warnick Buchdahl
The Rabbi
From an interview with Rabbi Jennifer Jaech
The Learning Never Stopped
By Nance Morris Adler
Reclaiming My Heritage
From an interview with Frank Tamburello
The Afterlife, After Christianity
By Rabbi John Crites-Borak
Part Four: Witness—Guides
Guiding the Convert Home
By Rabbi Robert Layman
From Rabbi’s Desk
By Rabbi Joseph F. Mendlesohn
Glossary