List of converts to Judaism

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Template:Judaism This article lists nations, groups or tribes, as well as notable individuals, who have converted to Judaism. This article does not differentiate between the different branches of Judaism. See also Who is a Jew? on issues related to the acceptance of conversions throughout the Jewish community.

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A number of prominent celebrities, such as Madonna, Demi Moore, and Ariana Grande, have become followers of a "new age" version of Kabbalah (see Kabbalah Centre), derived from the body of Jewish mystical teaching also called Kabbalah, but do not consider themselves—and are not considered—Jewish.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Converted nations, groups or tribes

Converted nations, groups or tribes from non-Abrahamic religions

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Converted nations, groups or tribes from Christianity

Converted individuals

From Christianity

Former Christian clergy or theologians

Other Christians who converted to Judaism

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Not from Christianity

From atheism and/or agnosticism

From Black Hebrew Israelitism

From Islam

From other Middle Eastern religions

From Greco-Roman religion

From Samaritanism

  • Sofi Tsedaka, Israeli actress, singer, television presenter and politician

From Shinto

  • Setsuzo Kotsuji, son of a Shinto priest, and a professor in Japan (converted from Shinto to Christianity and then from Christianity to Judaism)

From Hinduism

  • Sarah Avraham, women's world Thai-boxing champion

From Buddhism

  • Angela Warnick Buchdahl, American Reform Jewish Rabbi, converted to Orthodox Judaism at age 21. She was not raised within the Buddhist faith; however, her mother is Buddhist so by Orthodox Jewish law she was not considered Jewish, but she was raised Jewish and so by Reform Jewish law she has always been Jewish.

List of conversions named in the Bible

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Converts who later left the faith

  • Cristian Castro, Grammy Award-nominated Mexican pop singer<ref name="EsMas.com"/> (reverted to Roman Catholicism after divorcing his Jewish wife) <ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="EsMas.com">EsMas.com Template:Webarchive</ref>
  • Bob Denard, French soldier and mercenary. Converted from Catholicism to Judaism, then from Judaism to Islam, then from Islam to Catholicism<ref>["Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition", Robert Young Pelton, Collins Reference, 2003, p.270: "Denard has seven wives and has at various times converted to Judaism (in Morocco) and Islam (in the Comoros) and then back to Catholicism."]</ref>
  • Polemon II, king of Cilicia, converted to marry the Jewish princess Berenice; later relapsed<ref>(Josephus, Jewish Antiquities xx. 7, § 3</ref>

See also

References

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