U.S. rabbis say they have never seen anything like it: An unprecedented spike in the number of people interested in converting or enrolling in conversion classes. ‘Lots of people were shaken up by what happened’ on October 7 ‘and started feeling a need to make sense of this difficult world of ours,’ suggests one spiritual leader

NEW YORK – The child of an interfaith marriage, Mary Goodman was effectively raised by her paternal grandparents – Sephardi Jews from Turkey. She always felt Jewish and never bothered to undergo a formal conversion.