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Getting It Wrong Is Part of Conversion
Or so I tell myself!
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Nellie Bowles
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July 2021

Programming Note: Pace Will Be Slower As World Comes Back
Chosen By Choice continues, but it's time for more IRL Jewish life and learning!
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Nellie Bowles
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San Francisco's Top Irishman on His Conversion to Judaism
I just love Tommy Collison, ok. There's no news peg.
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Nellie Bowles
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An Orthodox Rabbi Says: Don’t Turn Converts Away
"When faced with such enthusiastic young souls seeking Torah, how can any of us say anything but Welcome?"
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Nellie Bowles
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A Short One This Week
Just a little riff on *showing up.*
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Nellie Bowles
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June 2021

He Raised Jewish Children. 20 Years In, He Officially Joined The Tribe.
This newsletter is now raining men! Hallelujah!
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Nellie Bowles
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"I explained Yom Kippur during a Sunday night Packers-Saints game"
A Midwesterner converts. A plea for men. And a call to support a local event space.
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Nellie Bowles
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A Conversion Completed In Conflict
A guest essay about living through the recent rocket campaign in Israel -- and feeling confused by the response back home.
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Nellie Bowles
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May 2021

Living A Jewish Life, Officially or Not
A beautiful and surprising guest essay.
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Nellie Bowles
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I Denied Him (At Least) Three Times
A guest essay about a fiancé converting. And a few thoughts on joining the Jews in 2021.
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Nellie Bowles
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Judaism Is Not a Death Cult
That's one of many things I like about it.
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Nellie Bowles
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Praying Away the Chumbawamba
Judaism and memorization.
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