List of converts to Judaism

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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. [1]

Converted nations, groups or tribes

Converted nations, groups or tribes from non-Abrahamic religions

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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Sammy Davis Jr., entertainer who converted while recovering from an automobile accident
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Andre Tippett
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Nikki Ziering

Not from Christianity

From atheism and/or agnosticism

From Black Hebrew Israelitism

From Islam

From other Middle Eastern religions

  • Avtalyon, Sage and vice-president of the Sanhedrin, apparently from a Mideastern religion [123]
  • Sh'maya, Sage and President of the Sanhedrin, apparently from a Mideastern religion [124]

From Greco-Roman religion

From Samaritanism

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

From Shinto

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

From Hinduism

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

Undetermined former religion

Converts who later left the faith

See also

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