I wanted to see what would happen if I shared my past with one of the friendly, popular girls in camp

“Well, you know,” she said. “You don’t live in a place with lots of Jews….”

You teach Jewish subjects in a Bais Yaakov, how could you not know how to answer my simple question?

I wasn’t nervous about remaining Jewish, just nervous about declaring it in a public setting

After her conversion, my mother and my father had to get halachically married. That was an interesting experience for me!

The night before my conversion, I lay in bed, excited thoughts whirling around in my head, tinged with nervousness about the actual procedure