You are only going to be asked your conversion story if people are interested. The opposite of interested is uninterested. Would this writer prefer that Jews had no interest in her?<\/p>\n
Emily writes<\/a>: So I told and I told and I told. But after a while it stopped being fun. After a while, somewhere in between our son\u2019s bris and the daily grind of keeping a small synagogue afloat, I stopped wanting to be a hyphenated Jew, a Jew-by-choice. I started to cringe a little when people would start playing Jewish geography with me. Yes, I grew up here\u2026 wait a few beats\u2026 no, I didn\u2019t come to this synagogue as a child\u2026 wait a few more beats\u2026 um, because I wasn\u2019t Jewish as a child. Yes, conversion is fascinating, isn\u2019t it? Insert polite smile.<\/p>\n \u201cIs your husband Jewish?\u201d\u2014that\u2019s another loaded question. If I say yes, which is true, people assume that I converted in order to facilitate marriage to a Jewish husband, but if I tell the truth, that we both converted, then I really have no choice but to tell the entire story and, frankly, it\u2019s not something I want to share with everyone I meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You are only going to be asked your conversion story if people are interested. The opposite of interested is uninterested. Would this writer prefer that Jews had no interest in her? Emily writes: So I told and I told and … Continue reading