“I don’t know if any of them would say it has to do with Covid. “It’s a large influx of people - and younger people - which I find to be really fascinating,” says Temple Israel Senior Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz. Rabbis at three area congregations say they’ve noticed an increase in conversion students and conversions to Judaism since the Covid pandemic has receded. Ryan is one of dozens of people in the Miami Valley who have recently converted to Judaism or are studying toward conversion. He then receives several blessings from Rabbi Aubrey Glazer, who prepared Ryan for his conversion.Įarlier that week, Ryan had met with a bet din (court of Jewish law) comprising three rabbis, and then immersed in the Miami Valley Mikvah. On this Shabbat morning, June 17, Ryan carefully intones the blessings before and after the Torah reading. Israeli American Ofir Ravin, 27, beams from the front row of Beth Abraham Synagogue’s main sanctuary as her husband, Ryan Lechich, 25, is called for an aliyah to the Torah for the first time. Since the Covid pandemic has receded, some area congregations have seen an uptick in conversions.īy Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer
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