
An Excerpt from ‘Choosing to Be Chosen,’ My New Conversion Memoir
This excerpt is from an early part of my conversion journey, when I went to my first class on Judaism.
Kylie Ora Lobell is a writer for the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, The Forward, Tablet Magazine, Aish, and Chabad.org and the author of the first children’s book for the children of Jewish converts, “Jewish Just Like You.”

This excerpt is from an early part of my conversion journey, when I went to my first class on Judaism.

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