Ex-con Roberto Eddy Santos reportedly converted ... or not Gross had a “genuine conversion.” JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong ...

cites a Hasidic saying that non-Hasidic Jewish Orthodoxy is as different from Hasidism as "a stick from a caress. By them there's such strictness, but with Hasidim, the whole Jewishness comes with ...