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This article lists nations, groups or tribes, as well as notable individuals, who have ] to ]. This article does not differentiate between the different branches of Judaism. See also ] on issues related to the acceptance of conversions throughout the ] community. |
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Converts are called ] (]). |
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Since ] is not an actively ]<ref>http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/Spotlight+on+Israel/About+the+Jewish+Religion.htm</ref> - with the exception of ], which actively invites and encourages conversion - ] is now a relatively uncommon occurrence. This article endeavours to list some notable people who have converted, or are believed to have converted, to Judaism. The article does not differentiate between the different branches of Judaism, but doesn't list people who married a Jewish spouse without converting. Also, most of these conversions (apart from the Biblical ones) are not recognized by the ] division because the converted did not convert under Orthodox auspices, or by Orthodox and Conservative authorities because the conversions were not done in accord with ]. |
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(A number of prominent figures, such as ], have recently become followers of ], a body of Jewish ] teaching, but do not consider themselves – and are not considered – Jewish.) |
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A number of prominent celebrities, such as ], ], and ], have become followers of a "new age" version of ] (see ]), derived from the body of Jewish ] teaching also called Kabbalah, but do not consider themselves – and are not considered – Jewish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704101604576248831427785952|title=Is Madonna Jewish?|first=Evan R.|last=Goldstein|date=8 April 2011|publisher=Wall Street Journal}}</ref> |
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== Converted nations, groups or tribes == |
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==List of converts to Judaism from Christianity== |
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===Former Christian Clergy and Christian Theologians=== |
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* ], confessor to ]<ref></ref> |
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* John David Scalamonti (former Roman Catholic priest) <ref> and </ref> |
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* ], former ] minister from Finland and Australia. Along with him, his wife Ruth (formerly Runa), two adult daughters, two teenage daughters, and a former son-in-law also converted.<ref></ref> |
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* ], German theologian<ref> </ref> "Johann Peter Spaeth (about 1642-1701), author of an attack on Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus, finally became a Jewish convert, called himself "Moses Germanus," and was even circumcised a few years before his death in 1697" |
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* ] (né Johannes), priest and composer <ref></ref> |
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* Aharon Calderon (former monk of a Catholic monastery in South America) <ref> |
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* ] (former archpriest) <ref> </ref> |
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* Dionis (former priest) <ref> </ref> |
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*John Hove (former Lutheran pastor)<ref> |
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*] English preaching friar, of the Dominican order; converted to Judaism about 1275 |
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===Converted nations, groups or tribes from non-Abrahamic religions=== |
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* Conversions throughout the Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic and ] periods<ref>{{cite journal | last=Feldman | first=Louis H. | title=Conversion to Judaism in Classical Antiquity | journal=Hebrew Union College Annual | publisher=Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion | volume=74 | year=2003 | issn=0360-9049 | jstor=23509246 | page=155 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23509246 | access-date=2023-07-08|quote=There is reason to believe, though the matter is certainly subject to scrutiny and though it is not possible to arrive at anything like a precise figure, that there was a great increase in the number of Jews between the time of the Babylonian captivity in 586 b.c.e. and the first century c.e... If there was such an increase in the number of Jews, it may be explained most readily only by assuming a large number of converts to Judaism. Considerable doubt surrounds the alleged forced conversion of the Idumaeans at the end of the second century B.C.E. and of the Ituraeans shortly thereafter. The statements of Philo and Josephus indicate that the Jews were well disposed toward attracting converts and that, indeed, they succeeded in doing so. This aim is likewise reflected in statements in the New Testament, in Strabo, Seneca, Juvenal, and Tacitus, as well as in rabbinic literature. This does not mean that Judaism was a missionary religion. It certainly lacked a central administration and a central bureaucracy capable of carrying on such a mission. What it does mean is that there is evidence, direct and indirect, that there were many converts to Judaism... The fact that we know of no tracts aimed specifically at attracting non-Jews to Judaism may be explained by the hypothesis that the great majority of people in antiquity were illiterate and that most conversions were apparently obtained through oral persuasion. More-over, expulsions of the Jews from Rome on at least two occasions because of proselyting activities may indicate that some Jews were, indeed, eager to accept converts. The generally very positive attitude of the rabbis toward proselytes would accord with this view. We may conjecture that people were attracted to Judaism for various reasons, especially economic advantages and the charitable institutions of the Jews. Women, in particular, were attracted.}}</ref><ref name="Zoossmann-Diskin 2010 p. 57">{{cite journal | last=Zoossmann-Diskin | first=Avshalom | title=The origin of Eastern European Jews revealed by autosomal, sex chromosomal and mtDNA polymorphisms | journal=Biology Direct | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=5 | issue=1 | year=2010 | issn=1745-6150 | doi=10.1186/1745-6150-5-57 | page=57| pmid=20925954 | pmc=2964539 | doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Feldman 1993 pp. 1–58">{{cite journal | last=Feldman | first=L. H. | title=Proselytism by Jews in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Centuries | journal=Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period | publisher=Brill | volume=24 | issue=1 | year=1993 | issn=0047-2212 | jstor=24659643 | pages=1–58 | doi=10.1163/157006393X00097 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24659643 | quote=In sum, Judaism in the third, fourth, and fifth centuries not only showed its vigor through the debates constituting its greatest work since the Bible, namely the Talmud, but also met the twin challenges of paganism and Christianity by winning more than its share of converts and "sympathizers."}}</ref><ref name = "Bartal">{{cite web| url = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999386.html| title = Inventing an invention| first = Israel| last = Bartal|authorlink= Israel Bartal| date = July 6, 2008| publisher = ]| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090303150903/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999386.html| access-date = October 22, 2009| archive-date = 2009-03-03|quote=My response to Sand's arguments is that no historian of the Jewish national movement has ever really believed that the origins of the Jews are ethnically and biologically "pure." Sand applies marginal positions to the entire body of Jewish historiography and, in doing so, denies the existence of the central positions in Jewish historical scholarship. No "nationalist" Jewish historian has ever tried to conceal the well-known fact that conversions to Judaism had a major impact on Jewish history in the ancient period and in the early Middle Ages. Although the myth of an exile from the Jewish homeland (Palestine) does exist in popular Israeli culture, it is negligible in serious Jewish historical discussions. Important groups in the Jewish national movement expressed reservations regarding this myth or denied it completely.}}</ref> (actual numbers and extent of proselytization disputed<ref name="docs.google.com">{{cite web |last=Goodman |first=Martin |date=26 February 2010 |title=Secta and natio |url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ib2suAQgXxDFZ5zLdag9DMTFCaDPkJrDwResH1I_J4I/edit |access-date=2 October 2013 |work=The Times Literary Supplement}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bird |first=Michael |date=2004-01-01 |title=The Case of the Proselytizing Pharisees?—Matthew 23.15 |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jshj/2/2/article-p117_2.xml |journal=Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus |language=en |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=117–137 |doi=10.1177/147686900400200202 |issn=1745-5197}}</ref><ref>Goodman, M. (1992). Jewish proselytizing in the first century. ''The Jews among pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire'', 53-78.</ref>) See the article on '']'': a term which initially referred to Hellenistic converts to Judaism.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Marcus |first=Ralph |name-list-style=amp |year=1952 |title=The Sebomenoi in Josephus |jstor=4465081 |journal=Jewish Social Studies |volume=14 |issue=3 |publisher=] |pages=247–250 |quote=We know from Pagan, Christian and Jewish sources that during the ] and ] some Gentiles were so strongly attracted to Judaism that they became ] and undertook to observe ] in the same manner as did the Jews themselves. It is also commonly assumed that there were some Gentiles who did not go so far as to become converts but indicated their belief in ] and gave up the ]. How far they went in openly dissociating themselves from Paganism and in associating themselves with Judaism we do not know. These Gentile sympathizers are commonly thought to be referred by the terms ''sebomenoi'' or ''phoboumenoi ton theon'' and ''metuentes'' in Greek and Latin sources, and ''yir᾿ê shamayim'' "fearers of Heaven" (i.e. God-fearers) in some early Rabbinic passages.}}</ref><ref name="Stroup 2020 p. 93">{{cite book | last=Stroup | first=C. | title=The Christians Who Became Jews: Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City | publisher=Yale University Press | series=Synkrisis | year=2020 | isbn=978-0-300-24789-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fUXZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA93 | access-date=2023-09-20 | page=93}}</ref> |
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{{cite journal |last1=Levin |first1=Yigal |title=The Religion of Idumea and Its Relationship to Early Judaism |journal=Religions |date=October 2020 |volume=11 |issue=10 |doi=10.3390/rel11100487 |at=From Southern Judah to Idumea to Southern Judea |issn=2077-1444|doi-access=free }} |
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* ] Claim to be Jews who converted, then converted back <ref></ref> |
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{{cite book |last1=Doak |first1=Brian R. |title=Ancient Israel's Neighbors |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-069061-8 |page=143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CQgCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA143 |quote=Some sources (such as the first century CE Jewish historian Josephus) suggest that a Jewish leader named John Hyrcanus forcibly "converted" the residents of Idumea to Judaism during the middle of the second century BCE, though others have pointed to natural affinities between Idumea and Judah that would have made the two regions natural allies (not requiring conversion).}} |
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</ref>), ], 2nd century BCE, conquered and converted by ]<ref>{{Britannica|305011|John Hyrcanus I}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Myers |first1=David N. |title=Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-066033-8 |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62_JDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 |quote=This last stage of Second Temple history was unique in the annals of the Jews, especially the Hasmonean practice of forced conversion}} |
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* {{cite web |last1=Rajak |first1=Tessa |title=Idumaea |url=https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-3252 |website=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.3252 |date=2015 |isbn=978-0-19-938113-5 |quote=Idumaea was annexed by John Hyrcanus (see hasmoneans) soon after 129 bce and the inhabitants Judaized}} |
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* {{cite book |editor1-last=Berlin |editor1-first=Adele |editor2-last=Grossman |editor2-first=Maxine |title=The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-973004-9 |page=186 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKAaJXvUaUoC&pg=PA186 |chapter=CONVERSION, FORCED |quote=The forced conversion of the Idumeans (Edomites) to Judaism by John Hyrcanus (135–105 bce) is the only such recorded case of forced conversions to Judaism.}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Magness |first1=Jodi |title=The Archaeology of the Holy Land: From the Destruction of Solomon's Temple to the Muslim Conquest |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-12413-3 |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZjih7ngVokC&pg=PA95 |quote=Idumaeans now were converted to Judaism... forcibly converting to Judaism the native populations, including the Ituracans}} |
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* {{cite book |editor1-last=Hornblower |editor1-first=Simon |editor2-last=Spawforth |editor2-first=Antony |editor3-last=Eidinow |editor3-first=Esther |title=The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-870677-9 |page=420 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIgdBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA420 |chapter=Jews |quote=The expansion of Jewish territory involved a phenomenon new to Judaism, the conversion of the neighbouring peoples, Idumaeans and Ituraeans, at least partly by force.}} |
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* {{cite web |last1=Levine |first1=Lee I. |title=Palestine Under Hasmonean Rule |url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/palestine-under-hasmonean-rule/ |website=My Jewish Learning |quote=At other times, however, whole populations were converted to Judaism, as was the case with the Idumeans under John Hyrcanus, and the Ituraeans under Aristobulus. }}</ref> |
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* ] (disputed<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Leibner |first=Uzi |url=https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43969 |title=Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Galilee: An Archaeological Survey of the Eastern Galilee |date=2009 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |isbn=978-3-16-151460-9 |pages=321–324; 362–371; 396–400; 414–416 |hdl=20.500.12657/43969 |language=English}}</ref>), Lebanon and Syria, 2nd century BCE, who according to ], were conquered and converted by ]<ref name="Idumeans&Ituracans"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Magness |first1=Jodi |title=Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth |date=2021 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-21677-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KR4OEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 |quote=During Aristobulus's brief reign he conquered Galilee and the Golan, perhaps converting to Judaism the Ituraeans, a native Semitic people... Atkinson 2016: 86—97, doubts that the Ituraeans were ever under Hasmonean rule, and suggests that Jewish expansion into Ituraean territory was a gradual process}}</ref><ref>{{Britannica|34424|Aristobulus I}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Myers |first1=E. A. |title=The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East: Reassessing the Sources |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-48481-7 |pages=26–27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cRrGQ8bIAkC&pg=PA26 |quote=In 104 B.C. John Hyrcanus I's sons, Antigonus and Aristobulus l, conquered Mt. Hermon, and probably forced the Ituraeans to convert to Judaism}}</ref> |
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* ], northern Iraq, 1st century |
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** ], king of ], from a Persian or Mideastern religion<ref name="jewishencyclopedia.com" /> |
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** ], wife of Izates bar Monobaz, from a Persian or Mideastern religion<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1468-ananias-of-adiabene|title=ANANIAS OF ADIABENE - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> |
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** ], king of ], from a Persian or Mideastern religion<ref name="jewishencyclopedia.com" /> |
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{{cite journal |last1=Stampfer |first1=Shaul |title=Did the Khazars Convert to Judaism? |journal=Jewish Social Studies |date=2013 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=1–72 |doi=10.2979/jewisocistud.19.3.1 |s2cid=161320785 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA375585613&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00216704&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=nysl_oweb&isGeoAuthType=true |issn=0021-6704}} |
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{{cite journal |last1=Gil |first1=Moshe |title=Did the Khazars Convert to Judaism? |journal=Revue des Études Juives |date=2011 |volume=170 |issue=3 |pages=429–441 |doi=10.2143/REJ.170.3.2141801 |url=https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?id=2141801&url=article |issn=1783-175X}} |
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</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Feldman |first=Alex M. |date=2022 |title=The Monotheisation of Pontic-Caspian Eurasia: From the Eighth to the Thirteenth Century |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |pages=27–28, 199–204 |isbn=9781474478113}}</ref>), a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia (historical ]), many of whom converted to Judaism en masse in the 8th and 9th centuries CE from a Khazar religion<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brook |first1=Kevin |title=The Jews of Khazaria |edition=3rd |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |year=2018 |chapter=Chapter 6: The Khazars' Conversion to Judaism}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-quotes.html|title=Medieval Quotes About Khazar Judaism (Khazar Jews)|website=www.khazaria.com}}</ref> |
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** ], king of the ], from a traditional Khazar religion<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brook |first1=Kevin |title=The Jews of Khazaria |edition=3rd |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |year=2018 |pages=84–87}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/khazars1.asp|title=Internet History Sourcebooks Project|website=sourcebooks.fordham.edu}}</ref> |
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* ] and ] are also Turkic peoples which underwent conversion.<ref>See e.g ]</ref> |
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* ], Yemen, 6th century |
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** ], from Arabian religion, Himyarite king of Yemen; ruled Yemen 390–420 CE |
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** ], king of ], from a Mideastern religion<ref> "If the contradictory and sometimes legendary accounts of the personality of Dhu Nuwas given by the Arabian writers can be trusted, he was not a Jew by birth, but embraced Judaism after ascending the throne, taking the name of "Joseph."</ref> |
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* ], Ethiopia, 4th century |
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* Multiple ] tribes noted by ], including the ], and possibly the warrior queen ] and her tribe. northwest Africa, 7th century, disputed |
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* ] and ]: Arab tribes who converted to Judaism when Jews arrived in ] following the ] Later, they claimed to be ]. They were of Arabian origins and believed in the concept of "sons of God" from ]. |
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* ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/a-history-of-the-abuyudaya-jews-of-uganda|title=A History of the Abuyudaya Jews of Uganda|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref> |
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* ]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4400957.stm | work=BBC News | title=Rabbi backs India's 'lost Jews' | date=April 1, 2005 | access-date=May 8, 2010}}</ref> |
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* ], claim to be Jews who converted to Christianity, then converted back to Judaism<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112055359/http://www.kulanu.org/india/bneiephraim.html |date=2007-11-12 }}</ref> |
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* B'nai Moshe (])<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708194449/http://www.kulanu.org/peru/peru.html |date=2008-07-08 }}</ref> |
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== Converted individuals == |
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* ], Polish count - may not have existed.<ref>'''Noble Soul: The Life and Legend of the Vilna Ger Tzedek, Count Walenty Potocki''' review </ref> |
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* ], Bible translator <ref>] Eleventh Edition, art. ''Aquila of Sinope''</ref> |
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* ], actor (upon marrying ])<ref></ref> |
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* ] (converted {{Circa|1275}}) |
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* ], fifteenth-century ] monk who joined the ] (Ethiopian Jewish) community. He converted his pupil, prince ], to Judaism and introduced monasticism to Ethiopian Jewry. |
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* ], former Protestant theologian |
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* ], ] and former Evangelical minister who became a world-renowned ] and converted to ], although he says he ].<ref name=Dever>{{cite journal |editor-last=Shanks |editor-first=Hershel |editor-link=Hershel Shanks |title=Losing Faith: Who Did and Who Didn't - How Scholarship Affects Scholars|journal=] |volume=33 |issue=2 |publisher=] |url=http://members.bib-arch.org/publication.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=33&Issue=2&ArticleID=12 |date=April 2007 |access-date=24 September 2019}}</ref> |
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* ], world-renowned ] scholar, ] and ], best known for being an eminent translator of the ];<ref name="timesofisrael">{{cite news| url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/geza-vermes-renowned-jesus-scholar-dies-at-88/ | work=] | first=Robert | last=Barr | title=Geza Vermes, renowned Jesus scholar, dies at 88 | date=12 May 2013 | access-date=17 September 2018}}</ref><ref name="forward">{{cite news| url=https://forward.com/news/176752/geza-vermes-hungarian-bible-scholar-who-returned-t/#ixzz2TSHw5Nz0 | work=] | first=Benjamin | last=Ivry | title=Geza Vermes, Hungarian Bible Scholar Who Returned to Jewish Roots, Dies at 88 | date=15 May 2013 | access-date=17 September 2018}}</ref> a former Roman Catholic priest of Jewish descent, he rediscovered his ], abandoned Christianity and converted to ].<ref name="timesofisrael"/><ref name="forward"/> |
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* ], former Protestant minister |
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* ], former Methodist minister |
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* ], converted with his family to ], ] and changed his name to Shlomo Brunell, former Lutheran minister.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5405055|work=]|first=Tamar|last=Hausman|title=Crazy' Ole Becomes an Oleh|date=24 August 2001|access-date=8 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://m.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Under-His-wings|work=]|first=Susan|last=De La Fuente|title=Under His Wings|date=1 March 2013|access-date=8 December 2018}}</ref> |
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* ], Ethiopian prince and son of emperor ], who persecuted Jews; converted with his teacher ], a former Ethiopian Orthodox monk |
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* ], actress<ref> "Judaism, for me, is more a spiritual thing than a religion, but I feel that I have a Jewish soul. I didn't convert because of my marriage; I just always felt like there was a Jewish soul inside of me just dying to get out."</ref> |
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* ], Bible translator<ref>] Eleventh Edition, art. ''Aquila of Sinope''</ref> |
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* ], singer and actress<ref>: Said of her conversion "I needed to know where God was, and I went back to the basics."</ref> |
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* ], singer/songwriter<ref>Interview with Croce's Cousin http://www.netporch.com/sa/</ref> |
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* ], American actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000792/bio|title=Tom Arnold|website=IMDb}}</ref> |
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* ], Spanish poet, essayist, literary critic and translator |
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* ], musician (upon marrying ])<ref> A ] review of '''Jacqueline Du Pre: A Biography''' by Carol Easton states she was "the daughter of anti-Semitic parents who herself converted to Judaism and at age 21 married Jewish pianist-conductor Daniel Barenboim."</ref> |
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* ], American actress |
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* ], model and actress (upon marrying ])<ref name="fisher1">{{cite news | last =Gensler| first =Howard| coauthors=| title ='Borat' to wed Aussie actress Isla Fisher| pages=| publisher =| date =] | url =http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/16105670.htm| accessdate =2006-11-29 }}</ref> |
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* ], American comedy writer |
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* ], journalist.<ref>Luke Ford, XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul. iUniverse, Inc., 2004. ISBN 0-595-66441-5</ref> |
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* ], American singer |
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* ], American actress and singer |
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* ], nobleman and politician<ref></ref> |
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* ] (1950 - ) American television personality, long-time host of the entertainment program Entertainment ''Tonight'' upon marrying ]<ref>'''Hart''' - "Thought there are no Jewish Republicans in show biz? Well, Bush contributors include... host Mary Hart, who’s a convert to Judaism..."</ref> |
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* ], "The Spy Whisperer," ] agent, converted to conservative Judaism in 2017.<ref name="autod">{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/darrell-blocker-the-black-jewish-spy-whisperer-who-could-lead-bidens-cia/|title=Darrell Blocker, the Black, Jewish 'spy whisperer' who could lead Biden's CIA|first=Ron|last=Kampeas|website=The Times of Israel|date=December 10, 2020}}</ref> |
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* ], actress (upon marrying ])<ref></ref> |
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* ], French comedian<ref> which states "as though his conversion to Judaism in 2002 had paradoxically made him closer to his Pas-de-Calais roots".</ref> |
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* ], Spanish writer <ref></ref> |
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* ], Canadian poet<ref> which states "Brewster is fascinated with her newly adopted faith of Judaism—poems about Jewish holy days and heritage are sprinkled throughout"</ref> |
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* ], actress<ref>: She says in the interview "I converted to Judaism in 1983. I am not a deeply religious person but it is a vital part of my life. It shapes my beliefs, and how I look at the world."</ref> |
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* ], actress<ref>"May Britt Joins Jewish Faith", ''The New York Times'', October 18, 1960, p. 46</ref> |
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* ], former Protestant Christian, linguist and a ] royal, now a black ] ].<ref></ref> |
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*], Pulitzer Prize-winning Australian-American journalist and author |
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* ], police chief of Charleston, South Carolina.<ref>The movie ]</ref> |
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* ], American television news reporter (Baptist Roman Catholic) |
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* ], writer of children's and adult literature.<ref></ref> |
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* ], British musician |
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* ], comedian (lapsed Roman Catholic) |
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* ], children's author<ref></ref> and <ref></ref> |
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* ], actress (ex-Methodist)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/schindler-ar1.html|title=The New York Times: Best Pictures|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> |
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* ], singer and actress<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019170331/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20030124/ai_n9615132 |date=2015-10-19 }}: Said of her conversion "I needed to know where God was, and I went back to the basics."</ref> |
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*] (1929 - ) American comedienne and actress, partner and wife of ]<ref name="Meara1">{{cite news | last =O'Toole| first =Lesley| coauthors=| title =Ben Stiller : 'Doing comedy is scary'| pages=| publisher =The Independent| date =] | url =http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article2092609.ece| accessdate =2006-12-22 }}</ref> |
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* ], Israeli-American hip hop dancer, choreographer, dance instructor and actor |
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* ], stage actress<ref> states of her marriage, "Adah was not at all interested in home or family; in fact, the only thing she shared sincerely with him was his religion–she adopted the Jewish faith and remained steadfast in it until her death."</ref> |
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* ], Brazilian funk singer and actor |
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* ], actress (upon marrying ])<ref></ref> |
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* ], linguist and musician |
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* ], novelist (on marriage to ]) <ref>'']'' Feb 7, 2005; online here accessed 11 Dec 2006</ref> |
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* ], American actress <ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharp |date=2014-10-15 |title=Lauren Cohan Is the Best Part of The Walking Dead |url=https://sharpmagazine.com/2014/10/15/lauren-cohan-is-the-best-part-of-the-walking-dead/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=Sharp Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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* ], philosopher<ref></ref> |
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* ], actress |
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* ], former NHL player<ref> </ref> |
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* ], politician |
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* ], American author.<ref> "I am a Jew by choice and Italian by heritage. Shortly after I converted to Judaism, I came across a book by Alexander Stille called Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism."</ref> |
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* ], singer-songwriter<ref>Interview with Croce's Cousin http://www.netporch.com/sa/</ref> |
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* ], physician, considered one of the founders of modern hematology |
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* ], American rapper (stated he discovered that he is Jewish by ancestory) <ref></ref> |
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* ], entertainer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sammy-davis-jr|title=Sammy Davis Jr.|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref> |
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* ], socialite (upon marrying ])<ref></ref> |
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* ], actress, singer, entrepreneur |
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* ] American film actress<ref>'''Stilley''' - "...the former model, raised a Christian in Conway, S.C., recently announced that she is converting to Judaism. Even her rabbi is befuddled.... "The first thing that attracted me to Judaism was the undeniable family strength that has held Jewish people and culture together for 3,000 years. . . Jews, whether religious or not, know where they have come from and what they would wish for their future, and this certainty is based on fact, not faith.... "I will not be a perfect Jew, nor will Judaism make me perfect. But I know that Judaism will give me faith, support, knowledge, and history. I am not Jewish because I choose to be. I am Jewish because there is no other choice for me.""</ref> |
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* ], French soprano |
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* ], actress (upon marrying ]) <ref>In her book ''Elizabeth Takes Off'', Taylor writes, " had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time." </ref> |
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* ], cellist<ref>A ] review of '''Jacqueline Du Pre: A Biography''' by Carol Easton {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721181259/http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780306809767|date=2015-07-21}} states she was "the daughter of anti-Semitic parents who herself converted to Judaism and at age 21 married Jewish pianist-conductor Daniel Barenboim."</ref> |
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* ], football player.<ref></ref> |
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* ], American journalist, author, and podcast host<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dubner |first=Stephen |date=September 14, 2022 |others=Produced by Zack Lipinski |title=When You Pray to God Online, Who Else Is Listening? |url=https://freakonomics.com/podcast/when-you-pray-to-god-online-who-else-is-listening/ |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=Freakonomics |language=en |type=Podcast}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dubner |first=Stephen |year=2000 |title=Stephen Dubner recalls the cardinal . . . |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/religion/features/3114/ |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=New York Magazine |language=en-us}}</ref> |
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* ] |
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* ], political activist and United States Democratic Party fundraiser |
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* ], also known as Elizabeth Ann Hulette, U.S. ] ] |
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* ], Chinese-American politician<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1015065.html|title=Democratic Convention Notes: Meet Chinese Jewish candidate Hank Eng}}</ref> |
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* ], Argentine political scientist and author |
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* ], American ] singer, actress, and dancer |
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* ], contemporary Jewish singer |
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* ], American mobster |
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* ], Australian-American former model and actress |
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* ], American physician and political candidate |
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* ], model and actress<ref name="fisher1">{{cite news|last=Gensler |first=Howard |title='Borat' to wed Aussie actress Isla Fisher |date=November 27, 2006 |url=http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/16105670.htm |access-date=November 29, 2006 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> (ex-Methodist) |
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* ], Irish-Israeli soldier |
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* ], journalist<ref>Luke Ford, XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul. iUniverse, Inc., 2004. {{ISBN|0-595-66441-5}}</ref> |
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* ], Canadian opera singer |
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* ], American writer, performer and entrepreneur |
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* ], former Catholic, historian of religion<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Van Biema |first1=David |title=Was Saint Augustine Good for the Jews? |url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1864878,00.html |access-date=8 May 2019 |magazine=] |date=7 December 2008}}</ref> |
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* ], journalist and comedian (lapsed Roman Catholic)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aaronfreeman.com/about/about.html|title=AARONFREEMAN.COM|access-date=2006-11-06|archive-date=2015-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019170331/http://aaronfreeman.com/about/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ], Croatian entrepreneur |
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* ] (ex-Methodist), rabbi |
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* ], American football player |
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* ], former Protestant, linguist and a ] royal, now a black ] ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.natangamedze.com/|title=美白肌になる為の紫外線対策: 美白肌になる為の紫外線対策|access-date=2007-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721175905/http://www.natangamedze.com/|archive-date=2015-07-21|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s2269904.htm|title=Compass: COMPASS: THE BLACK JEW OF ROYAL SWAZILAND – ABC TV|website=] |date=8 June 2008}}</ref> |
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* ], American actor |
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* ], British officer, founder of the ] and the ] |
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* ], nobleman and politician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6811-gordon-lord-george|title=GORDON, LORD GEORGE - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> |
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* ], police chief of Charleston, South Carolina<ref name="The movie Shalom y'all">The movie ]</ref> |
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* ], Swedish professor of philosophy at the University of Texas<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.swedishenglishtranslation.com/jwriting/gustafsson-b.htm|title=Contemporary Jewish Writing in Sweden -- Lars Gustafsson Bio|website=www.swedishenglishtranslation.com}}</ref> |
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* ], American musician |
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* ] (born 1950), American television personality, long-time host of the entertainment program Entertainment ''Tonight''<ref>'''Hart''' – "Thought there are no Jewish Republicans in show biz? Well, Bush contributors include... host Mary Hart, who’s a convert to Judaism..."</ref> |
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* ], American professional golfer |
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* ], American actor |
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* ], Democratic Member of the ] |
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* ], American mobster |
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* ], writer of children's and adult literature<ref></ref> |
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* ], actress<ref name="nndb" /> |
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* ], American baseball player<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=baseball&ID=143|title=Horlen, Joe : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref><ref>The Big Book of Jewish Sports People by Peter Horvitz page 53</ref> |
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* ], composer, conductor, and record producer |
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* ], actress |
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* ], adult entertainer and entrepreneur |
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* ], actress<ref name="nndb" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427700/news|title=Carolyn Jones (I) - News|website=IMDb}}</ref> |
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* ] (lapsed Roman Catholic) |
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* ] a/k/a Yitz Jordan, musician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/this-rabbi-and-rapper-want-to-create-a-jcc-for-jews-of-color/|title=This Rabbi and Rapper Want to Create a JCC for Jews of Color|website=jewishweek.timesofisrael.com|date=22 January 2020 }}</ref> |
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* ], Spanish writer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2002/372/1038817318.html|title=Los nuevos conversos... al judaísmo|website=www.elmundo.es}}</ref> |
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* ], American major league baseball player |
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* ] |
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* ], German-American philosopher, translator and poet |
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* ], American musician |
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* ], British actress<ref>{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}: She says in the interview "I converted to Judaism in 1983. I am not a deeply religious person but it is a vital part of my life. It shapes my beliefs, and how I look at the world."</ref> |
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* ], politician, brother of ] (lapsed Roman Catholic)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002010597_cam20m.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524113950/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002010597_cam20m.html |url-status=dead |title=Seattle Times|archive-date=May 24, 2011}}</ref> |
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* ], author<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bethisrael-om.org/pdf/bignews2.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621050957/http://www.bethisrael-om.org/pdf/bignews2.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-06-21|title=judaism+-wikipedia&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=25 Beth Israel}}</ref> |
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*], American television journalist (lapsed Roman Catholic) |
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*], model |
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* ], Japanese author and painter |
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* ], Ph.D., founding Chairman of ], association for ] research |
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* ], American diplomat, political figure, and academic |
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* ], British suffragist, birth control advocate, and eugenicist |
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* ], German author, essayist, scholar, and literary critic |
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* ], American actress and comedian |
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* ], American film and television actor and comedian |
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* ], son of a Methodist minister and a children's author (ex-Methodist)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.authorsguild.net/juliuslester/|title=Home – Julius Lester|first=Julius|last=Lester|access-date=2006-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722060251/http://members.authorsguild.net/juliuslester/|archive-date=2015-07-22|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ], American journalist, author and television host |
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* ], army officer and teacher |
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* ], American former ] player<ref name="Jewish Baseball Players">{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/Jewish_baseball_players.shtml|title=Jewish Baseball Players | Baseball Almanac|website=www.baseball-almanac.com}}</ref> |
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* ], Canadian politician |
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* ] (born 1952), NFL football wide receiver |
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* ] (1938–2018), African-American activist of the ]. |
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* ] (1929–2015), American comedian and actress, partner and wife of ] (lapsed Roman Catholic)<ref name="Meara1">{{cite news|last=O'Toole |first=Lesley |title=Ben Stiller : 'Doing comedy is scary' |work=The Independent |date=December 22, 2006 |url=http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article2092609.ece |access-date=December 22, 2006 |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108222337/http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article2092609.ece |archive-date=January 8, 2007 }}</ref> |
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* ], stage actress<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312214202/http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/adah.html |date=2012-03-12 }} states of her marriage, "Adah was not at all interested in home or family; in fact, the only thing she shared sincerely with him was his religion–she adopted the Jewish faith and remained steadfast in it until her death."</ref> |
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* ] (born 1959), American-Israeli basketball player |
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* ], Russian-born former member of the Israeli ] |
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* ], President of Argentina |
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* ], French dancer and choreographer |
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* ], novelist<ref>'']'' Feb 7, 2005; online here {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414042108/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050207/ai_n9500063/ |date=2009-04-14 }} accessed Dec 11, 2006</ref> |
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* ], American record producer |
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* ], French artist, designer, and art editor of '']'' |
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* ], American Major League Baseball catcher |
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* ], Canadian former NHL player<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehockeynews.com/features/judaism_on_ice.pdf |title=Judaism on Ice The Jewish Experience and the NHL|access-date=2012-03-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927015212/http://www.thehockeynews.com/features/judaism_on_ice.pdf |archive-date=2007-09-27 }}</ref> |
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* ], American-born Israeli journalist |
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* ], American television commentator, financial analyst, and political advisor |
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* ], American actress |
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* ], American film, stage and television actress |
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* ], British politician |
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* ], Canadian novelist and poet |
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* ], Scottish-American actress, singer-songwriter |
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* ], Canadian retired professional NHL ice hockey defenceman |
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* ], professor of the classic languages at the University of Marburg |
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* ], actor |
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* ], ] pilot in ]'s army, then became a Jew and citizen of ]<ref>{{cite book| author = Lawrence Jeffrey Epstein| title =A treasury of Jewish anecdotes| publisher = Jason Aronson| page=, 6| year =1989| url =https://archive.org/details/treasuryofjewish00epst| url-access = registration| quote = a treasury of jewish anecdotes.| access-date =April 3, 2010 | isbn =978-0-87668-890-8}}</ref> |
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* ], British model and showgirl |
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* ], Canadian intelligence expert, former ] officer |
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* ], American author (lapsed Roman Catholic)<ref> "I am a Jew by choice and Italian by heritage. Shortly after I converted to Judaism, I came across a book by Alexander Stille called Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism."</ref> |
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* ], American actress |
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* ], German television presenter and talk show host<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zeitgeistnews.de/tv/19493-baerbel-schaefer-knallharte-diskussionen-mit-michel-friedmann|title=Bärbel Schäfer: Knallharte Diskussionen mit Michel Friedmann|access-date=2012-07-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722222013/http://zeitgeistnews.de/tv/19493-baerbel-schaefer-knallharte-diskussionen-mit-michel-friedmann|archive-date=2015-07-22|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ], Israeli-American mathematical scholar |
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* ], American radio personality<ref name="nndb" /> |
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* ], American actress |
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* ], businessman<ref>{{cite news|title=Yosef the Holy Avreich|url=http://issuu.com/josephjoelsherman/docs/mishpacha_magazine_yosef_sherman|author=Ariey Ariley|location=Jerusalem, Israel|publisher=]|date=May 29, 2014|access-date=Sep 30, 2014|language=he}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Deutsch|first1=Gloria|title=Yearning for acceptance|url=http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Yearning-for-acceptance|work=Features|agency=Jerusalem Post|issue=7/26/2012|quote=Joseph Joel Sherman has traveled a long road, from devout Christian to even more devout Jew – and in fact he has not yet arrived at his destination, to be accepted as a fully-fledged Orthodox Jew – although he is well on the way.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Intelligently and Enthusiastically Crowning Hashem|url=https://www.ouisrael.org/events/intelligently-enthusiastically-crowning-hashem/|publisher=The Seymour J. Abrams Jerusalem World Center, headquarters of OU Israel|access-date=Sep 30, 2014}}</ref> |
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* ], Australian director |
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* ], Belizean–American rapper<ref>{{cite web|url=http://57thave.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/shyne-to-be-released-in-april/|title=WordPress.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222100005/http://57thave.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/shyne-to-be-released-in-april/|archive-date=2012-02-22}}</ref> |
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* ], Czech Orthodox rabbi, writer and playwright |
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* ], American author of thriller and espionage novels<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/20338/edition_id/415/format/html/displaystory.html |title=Novelist takes on Vatican secrecy with new spy thriller – j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California |first=dan |last=pine |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217143821/http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/20338/edition_id/415/format/html/displaystory.html |archive-date=2009-02-17 }}</ref> |
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* ], American-Israeli basketball player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/amp/sports/basketball/knicks/ex-knick-chris-smith-converts-judaism-signs-deal-israel-article-1.3683901|title=Ex-Knick Chris Smith converts to Judaism, signs deal in Israel - NY Daily News<!-- Bot generated title -->|website=]}}</ref> |
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* ], American pianist and composer |
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* ], Scottish artist.<ref name="Herald Obituary">{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14686241.robin-spark/|title=Robin Spark|website=HeraldScotland|date=17 August 2016 |access-date=20 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="Times Obituary">{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/robin-spark-plp9j35kj|title=Robin Spark|date=20 August 2016|access-date=20 June 2019|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}</ref> |
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* ], American actress |
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* ], American actress<ref>from biography "Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley" by ], 2006</ref> |
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* ], socialite<ref>{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|title=BUSY LOVE LETTERS|first=Godfrey Hodgson; Godfrey Hodgson Is A. British Journalist Whose Latest Book Is "all Things To All|last=Men."|date=3 April 1983|publisher=YTimes.com}}</ref> |
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* ] (lapsed Roman Catholic) |
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* ], American film actress<ref>'''Stilley''' – {{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} "...the former model, raised a Christian in Conway, S.C., recently announced that she is converting to Judaism. Even her rabbi is befuddled.... "The first thing that attracted me to Judaism was the undeniable family strength that has held Jewish people and culture together for 3,000 years. . . Jews, whether religious or not, know where they have come from and what they would wish for their future, and this certainty is based on fact, not faith.... "I will not be a perfect Jew, nor will Judaism make me perfect. But I know that Judaism will give me faith, support, knowledge, and history. I am not Jewish because I choose to be. I am Jewish because there is no other choice for me.""</ref> |
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* ], businesswoman and politician |
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* ], actress (ex-Christian Scientist)<ref>In her book ''Elizabeth Takes Off'', Taylor writes, " had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time." </ref> |
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* ], American author of fiction and nonfiction (lapsed Roman Catholic) |
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* ], American Hall of Fame former football linebacker for the New England Patriots (ex-Baptist)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jewishsports.com/profiles/tippett.htm |title=Profile at Jewishsports.com |access-date=2007-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014110543/http://www.jewishsports.com/profiles/tippett.htm |archive-date=2008-10-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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* ], businesswoman, former first-daughter, raised Presbyterian<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ivanka Trump: America's most powerful Jewish woman |url=https://cnn.com/interactive/2017/politics/state/ivanka-trump-religion/ |access-date=2022-07-16 |website=cnn.com |date=10 March 2017 |language=en}}</ref> |
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* ], German actor<ref name="nndb">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nndb.com/event/931/000084679/|title=Converted to Judaism|website=www.nndb.com}}</ref> |
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* ], American soul singer |
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* ], actress, singer (lapsed Roman Catholic)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/9784/|title=Journey to Judaism|author=Pfefferman, Naomi|date=24 June 2004|access-date=18 July 2018|quote="After Winningham observed her first ] that year, she knew she had to convert, and did so March 3, 2003, accompanied by an entourage of friends and relatives."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/23590/edition_id/468/format/html/displaystory.html|title=Actress-singer Mare Winningham an unlikely Jewish soul|author=admin}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hillel.org/TemplatesHillel/Templates/news.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID={072CF0C6-A8D1-496E-B652-AE4916E495F6}&NRORIGINALURL=%2Fabout%2Fnews%2F2007%2Fmar%2Fwinningham_2007Mar16.htm&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest|title=500 Error}}</ref> |
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* ], Nobel prize-winning chemist<ref></ref> |
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* ]]]] – Nobel prize-winning chemist (Orthodox Judaism)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/kk|title=Christian B. Anfinsen|website=Profiles in Science}}</ref> |
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* ], a yeshiva Student and informant for the ] <ref> Born 42 years ago in a Shi’ite village in eastern Lebanon, today he is an ultra-Orthodox Jew who studies in a yeshiva and is raising his seven children in Safed.</ref> |
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* ], "Spengler" – columnist and former member of the ] who embraced Judaism in the 1990s<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1409|title=Web Exclusives|work=First Things}}</ref> |
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* ] – social philosopher and sociologist of religion; Jewish theologian; former atheist and Marxist of Jewish ancestry who was raised atheist<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=1051200|title=Review|journal=Journal of Law and Religion|volume=7|issue=1|pages=247–250|last1=Novak|first1=David|year=1989|doi=10.2307/1051200|s2cid=144084099 }}</ref> |
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* ] – philosopher; last personal secretary of ]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BAQ2VtfH3awC&q=%22benny+levy%22+atheist+-interview&pg=PA1092|title=Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index|isbn=9780415929844|last1=Lillian Kremer|first1=S.|last2=Kremer|first2=Klemens|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis }}</ref> |
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* ] – fashion journalist |
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* ] – philosopher raised in a Jewish-atheist home<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/07/30/finding_my_religion/?page=3|title=Finding My Religion |quote=In 1962, she married Hilary Putnam, a Harvard philosopher. He, too, had a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father and was raised as an atheist... In 1994, Hilary Putnam celebrated his belated bar mitzvah, and four years later, his wife did the same.}}</ref> |
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* ]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SdwbFx9Dz8EC|title=Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science|first=Damien|last=Broderick|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31121-5}}</ref> |
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* ] – Canadian actress<ref name=JTrib>Cohen, Mike. , ''Jewish Tribune'', August 23, 2011. Accessed October 18, 2011.</ref> |
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* ] – a leading rabbi in ]; former atheist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/60157538.html?dids=60157538:60157538&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+07%2C+1990&author=MATHIS+CHAZANOV&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Book+on+Sweetness+of+Belief+Judaism%3A+A+former+atheist+who+is+now+a+rabbi+makes+the+case+for+how+God+matters.&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026095747/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/60157538.html?dids=60157538:60157538&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+07,+1990&author=MATHIS+CHAZANOV&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Book+on+Sweetness+of+Belief+Judaism:+A+former+atheist+who+is+now+a+rabbi+makes+the+case+for+how+God+matters.&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 26, 2012|title=Los Angeles Times: Archives – Book on Sweetness of Belief Judaism: A former atheist who is now a rabbi makes the case for how God matters.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sn4UAAAAIBAJ&pg=6421,6871993&dq=david-wolpe+atheist&hl=en|title=Toledo Blade – Google News Archive Search}}</ref> |
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* ] (Acylas), from Greek ]<ref> "He was by birth a Gentile from Pontus, and is said by Epiphanius to have been a connection by marriage of the emperor Hadrian and to have been appointed by him about the year 128 to an office concerned with the rebuilding of Jerusalem as "Ælia Capitolina." At some unknown age he joined the Christians, but afterward left them and became a proselyte to Judaism."</ref> |
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* ], king of ] <ref> "If the contradictory and sometimes legendary accounts of the personality of Dhu Nuwas given by the Arabian writers can be trusted, he was not a Jew by birth, but embraced Judaism after ascending the throne, taking the name of "Joseph."</ref> |
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* ] the prophet<ref> "Obadiah was a proselyte of Edomite origin."</ref> |
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* ], Hebrew scholar and translator<ref></ref> |
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* ], great-grandmother of ]. <ref></ref> |
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* ], king of Clicia converted to marry the Jewish princess ]; later relapsed. <ref>(], '']'' xx. 7, § 3</ref> |
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* ], king of ] converted to marry the Jewish princess ] <ref>Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, xx.7.1</ref> |
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* ], a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia (historical ]), many of whom converted to Judaism en masse in the 8th and 9th Centuries CE. |
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* ], were converted to Judaism when their homeland was conqured by the ] ruler ] in 125 BC. |
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* ] – Lebanese member of ] who had an Orthodox conversion and lives as a ] in ].<ref>"A Martyr from Lebanon: Life in the Shadow of Danger"</ref> |
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* Ayman Subah (now known as Dor Shachar) – ] from ], ] who fled to Israel and converted to Judaism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/286856|title = From Khan Yunis to a Jewish wedding| date=8 September 2020 }}</ref> |
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* ] – ] and member of the ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Memorial to be Held for Fighter|url=https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143529|access-date=2021-07-20|website=Israel National News|date=13 April 2011 |language=en}}</ref> |
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* ] – Palestinian man and his Egyptian wife.<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Straits Times - Google News Archive Search|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zFlPAAAAIBAJ&pg=2164,3333207&dq=ibrahim-shahin+1977&hl=en|access-date=2021-07-20|website=news.google.com}}</ref> |
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* Ibtisam Hamid (popularly known as Basma al-Kuwaiti) – Kuwaiti singer and actress.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/02/334680/basma-al-kuwaiti-converts-from-islam-to-judaism-stirs-controversy|title = Basma Al-Kuwaiti Converts from Islam to Judaism, Stirs Controversy}}</ref> |
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* ] – ] singer.<ref>{{cite news |title=Popular Arab singer becomes Jewish |url=https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/251496 |accessdate=11 October 2019 |publisher=Arutz-7}}</ref> |
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* ] – British pornographic actress of South Asian origin. She converted to Judaism while dating her Jewish boyfriend.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-05 |title=Two men 'planning to kidnap and murder woman who renounced Islam' arrested |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/men-arrests-kidnap-murder-plot-woman-islam-london-coventry-a9093896.html |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> |
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* ], Sage and vice-president of the ], apparently from a Mideastern religion<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/645-abtalion-pollion|title=ABTALION, POLLION - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> |
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* ], Sage and President of the Sanhedrin, apparently from a Mideastern religion<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13551-shemaiah-samaias-sameas|title=SHEMAIAH (SAMAIAS, SAMEAS) - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> |
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* ] (Acylas), from ]<ref> "He was by birth a Gentile from Pontus, and is said by Epiphanius to have been a connection by marriage of the emperor Hadrian and to have been appointed by him about the year 128 to an office concerned with the rebuilding of Jerusalem as "Ælia Capitolina." At some unknown age he joined the Christians, but afterward left them and became a proselyte to Judaism."</ref> |
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* ], consul, great-nephew of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, from traditional Roman religion (possibly to ], as he is also a Christian saint) |
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* ], Hebrew scholar and translator, from ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11712-onkelos|title=ONḲELOS - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> |
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* ], American Reform Jewish Rabbi, converted to ] at age 21. She was not raised within the Buddhist faith; however, her mother is Buddhist so by Orthodox Jewish law she was not considered Jewish, but she was raised Jewish and so by Reform Jewish law she has always been Jewish. |
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* ], from a mideastern religion who admitted that God of Israel is eternal Forever {{sfn|Seow|2003|p=85-86}}<ref>Book of Daniel 6:25-28</ref> |
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* ], priest of ] and father-in-law of ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usareligiousnews.com/get-article.php?ID=2790 |title=USA Religious News |access-date=2007-02-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008133217/http://www.usareligiousnews.com/get-article.php?ID=2790 |archive-date=2007-10-08 }}</ref> from a Mideastern religion |
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* ], queen of ], from a Mideastern or Ethiopian religion<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13515-sheba-queen-of|title=SHEBA, QUEEN OF - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> |
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* ], from the ancient Egyptian religion (her name relates to ]) |
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* ], great-grandmother of ], from a Near Eastern religion<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/beliefs/conversion.shtml|title=BBC - Religions - Judaism: Converting to Judaism|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> |
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* ], actress<ref> "Judaism, for me, is more a spiritual thing than a religion, but I feel that I have a Jewish soul. I didn't convert because of my marriage; I just always felt like there was a Jewish soul inside of me just dying to get out."</ref> |
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* ], American philosopher and academic<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020805/nussbaum|title=The Nation}}</ref> |
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* ], Canadian activist, lawyer, and former leader of the ].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jewishpostandnews.ca/8-features/514-annamie-paul-candidate-for-leadership-of-the-green-party-had-a-surprising-winnipeg-connection-unknown-to-her-until-recently |title=Annamie Paul, candidate for leadership of the Green Party, had a surprising Winnipeg connection - unknown to her until recently |access-date=2020-10-04 |archive-date=2020-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004153944/https://www.jewishpostandnews.ca/8-features/514-annamie-paul-candidate-for-leadership-of-the-green-party-had-a-surprising-winnipeg-connection-unknown-to-her-until-recently |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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* ], Grammy Award-nominated Mexican pop singer<ref name="EsMas.com"/> (reverted to Roman Catholicism after divorcing his Jewish wife) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laprensa.hn/espectaculos/824605-410/verónica-castro-y-el-loco-valdés-unidos-por-bautismo-de-hija-de|title=Verónica Castro y 'El Loco' Valdés unidos por bautismo de hija de Cristian Castro|website=Diario La Prensa}}</ref><ref name="EsMas.com"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329142337/http://www.esmas.com/espectaculos/farandula/439874.html |date=2012-03-29 }}</ref> |
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* ], French soldier and mercenary. Converted from Catholicism to Judaism, then from Judaism to Islam, then from Islam to Catholicism<ref></ref> |
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This article lists nations, groups or tribes, as well as notable individuals, who have converted to Judaism. This article does not differentiate between the different branches of Judaism. See also Who is a Jew? on issues related to the acceptance of conversions throughout the Jewish community.
