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==Further reading== * Rabbi [[Herbert Bomzer|Herbert W. Bomzer]], ''The Chosen Road'' (1996, {{ISBN|978-0-8840-0187-4}}). An anecdotal approach to explaining the process of conversion to Judaism. * Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben and Jennifer S. Hanin (foreword by Bob Saget) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110902060129/http://becomingjewishbook.com/ ''Becoming Jewish: The Challenges, Rewards, and Paths to Conversion''], Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011, 272 pp. - Jointly written by a rabbi and a convert to Judaism, this book provides a modern, comprehensive overview of the reasons, practices, and results of Jewish conversion. It addresses all denominations of Judaism and covers topics as varied as how to tell family and friends to antisemitism, to pop Kaballah. * Menachem Finkelstein, ''[https://publishersrow.com/www.publishersrow.com:443/preview/conversion/ebookpreview/shid1_bid3118.htm Conversion: Halakhah and Practice]'', Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006, 784 pp. - This is the most comprehensive and complete compilation of laws covering giyur in English. Authored by a sitting Israeli judge, this groundbreaking volume examines the entire Halakhic literature on the subject, from the time of Mishnah and Talmud until today. * ''Proceedings of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative Movement 1927β1970'', Vol. II, Ed. David Golinkin, The Rabbinical Assembly, 1997 * Norman Lamm, ''Seventy Faces: Divided we stand, but its time to try an idea that might help us stand taller'', Moment Vol. II, No. 6, June 1986 β Sivan 5746 * Moshe Lavee, ''[https://www.academia.edu/690256/THE_TRACTATE_OF_CONVERSION_BT_YEB_46_48_AND_THE_EVOLUTION_OF_CONVERSION_PROCEDURE The Tractae of Conversion, EAJS 4, 2010, pp. 169-213]'' * Moshe Lavee, ''[https://www.academia.edu/598950/Converting_The_Missionary_Image_of_Abraham_Rabbinic_Traditions_Migrating_from_the_Land_of_Israel_to_Babylon Converting The Missionary Image of Abraham: Rabbinic Traditions Migrating from the Land of Israel to Babylon, in: George H. Kooten, Martin Goodman and J.T.A.G.M. Ruiten, Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives on Kinship with Abraham (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 203 - 222.]'' * Mayer E. Rabinowitz ''Comments to the Agunot Conference in Jerusalem'', July 1998, and on the Learn@JTS website. * Emmanuel Rackman, letter in ''Jewish Week'' 8 May 1997, page 28. * Joseph Soloveitchik ''Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews in the United States: Second article in a series on Responsa of Orthodox Judaism in the United States'', 1954 * Jack Wertheimer, Ed., ''Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America'', Vol. II, p. 450, 474, JTS, NY, 1997 * Rabbi Josef Lifland ''Converts and Conversion to Judaism''. Gefen Publishing House. {{ISBN|965-229-235-4}} *{{cite book |editor1-last=Dunkelgrun |editor1-first=Theodor |editor2-last=Maciejko |editor2-first=Pawel |title=Bastards and Believers: Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present |date=2020 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-5188-3 |language=en}}
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