10 Ways to Welcome Converts
Rabbi Maller has written dozens of articles on conversion during his 30 years at Temple Akiba, Culver City. In \"God, Sex and Kabbalah\" (Samuel Weiser), he notes that many converts to Judaism were found to have Jewish ancestors.\n\n\n
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