r/JewsOfConscience • u/DeadRat__ Jewish Anti-Zionist • 24d ago

Discussion - Flaired Users Only problems with jewish identity

i was not raised as a jew. my great-grandmother was jewish, but she was forced to convert to catholicism in order to marry my great-grandfather. after discovering this, i began to study judaism and felt extremely comfortable and happy with the religion, and began to contact my local synagogue for conversion. problem is: i didn't like the people that ran the local synagogue. i didn't felt welcomed for who i am and what i belive, they are staunch zionists.

there is no other synagogue in the city (i live in a small state capital in brazil).

i don't know what to do. I wasn't raised jewish, but fell in love with the religion and began to study the Halakah and observe the mitzvot.

i don't like to call myself a jew because i never did my formal conversion, but i don't feel like anything else.

what am i?

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u/eitzhaimHi Jewish 24d ago

First of all, welcome home. Formal conversion is certainly possible as other posters have said. The Bnei Jesherun referral is a good one! Also you might contact the Reconstructionist seminary and see what they can do. Perhaps they could arrange structured online study and conversion. Also, they have a policy of accepting non-Zionists.

If your neshama is calling you to Judaism, please don't give up! We need your Torah.

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u/DeadRat__ Jewish Anti-Zionist 24d ago

thank you so much for your kind words!