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        <p><a href="https://tommycollison.com">Home</a></p> 

        <h1>Judaism</h1>
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            I started the process of converting to Judaism around 2018 and completed my <em>beit din</em> in 2020.
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        <p>Interviews</p>
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            <li><a href="https://chosenbychoice.substack.com/p/san-franciscos-top-irishman-on-his">Column</a> for Nellie Bowles' excellent Substack.</li>
            <li><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/conversion-new-jews-2021-photomontage">Interview</a> with Liel Liebovitz for Tablet's conversion edition.</li>
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        <p>Recommended reading</p>
        <p>Here is most of what I read before, during, and after converting. Books in bold are particularly recommended. List starts earliest (2014) to latest.</p>
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            <li><strong>Lamentations.</strong></li>
            <li>Synagogue Boards: A Sacred Trust, by Daniel Schechter.</li>
            <li>Israel, by Noa Tishby.</li>
            <li>Jerusalem, by Guy Delisle.</li>
            <li>Choosing a Jewish Life, by Anita Diamont.</li>
            <li>Why I Am A Jew, by Edmond Fleg.</li>
            <li> Words That Hurt, Words that Heal, by Joseph Telushkin.</li>
            <li><b>God in Search of Man, by Abraham Joshua Heschel</b></li>            
            <li><b>Exodus and Revolution, by Michael Walzer</b></li>
            <li>Pikei Avot.</li>
            <li>The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, by Tom Segev. </li>
            <li>Learn to Read Hebrew in 6 Weeks!, by Miiko Shaffier. 
            <li><b>My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, by Ari Shavit</b></li>
            <li>Judaism: A Very Short Introduction, by Norman Solomon.</li>
            <li><b>Man&rsquo;s Search for Meaning, by Victor E. Frankl</b></li> 
            <li>The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning, by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. 
            <li>Letters to the Next Generation 2: Reflections on Jewish Life, by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.</li> 
            <li><b>Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion, by Danya Ruttenberg</b></li>
            <li>Swimming in the Sea of Talmud: Lessons for Everyday Living, by Rabbi Michael Katz and Rabbi Gershon Schwartz.</li>
            <li><b>The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, by David Brooks</b></li>
            <li><b>O Jerusalem, by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins.</b></li>
            <li><b>To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking, by Harold Kushner</b></li>
            <li>Living a Life that Matters, by Harold Kushner.</li>
            <li>Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals, by George Robinson.</li>            
            <li><b>How To Fight Anti-Semitism, by Bari Weiss.</b></li>             
            <li><b>Rise and Kill First, by Ronen Bergman.</b></li>             
            <li>Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History, by Joseph Telushkin. 
            <li><b>Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, by Daniel Gordis.</b></li> 
            <li>The Case for Israel, by Alan Dershowitz.</li>
            <li>Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel, by Anita Shapira.</li>
            <li><b>Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally.</b></li> 
            <li><b>From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas L. Friedman.</b></li> 
            <li><b>Israel/Palestine, by Alan Dowty.</b></li>        
            <li><b>Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, by Edward W. Said</b></li>             
            <li><b>A History of Modern Iran, by Ervand Abrahamian.</b></li> 
            <li>Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (Open Media Series), by Tanya Reinhart.</li>
            <li><b>Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz.</b></li> 
            <li>Persepolis 2, by Marjane Satrapi.</li>
            <li><b>The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid.</b></li> 
            <li>No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam, by Reza Aslan.</li>
            <li>Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran, by Michael Axworthy. 
            <li><b>The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East, by Neil MacFarquhar.</b></li> 
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