educating

It fit somehow that this recent Saturday service for converts to Judaism took place in a synagogue library. Because this gathering, at Temple Beth Am near Beverly Hills, was both an exercise in worship and in teaching. Maybe it even fit that this was a children\’s library, because many of the 40 adults who sat in folding chairs are young in relation to their Judaism.

This program, called Judaism by Choice, is \”a way of educating the people while they\’re in the service itself, teaching it while they\’re doing the service … the terms of the synagogue, the geography of the service,\” said Rabbi Neal Weinberg, the program\’s creator.