I really have no particular faith or religious beliefs, however, I have recently been feeling 'drawn' to Judaism. This has been going on for about 2 years now. It's just been little things, like being touched by a convert's story or things like that.
Are there any people here who can recommend any good books about Judaism that touched them, or convinced them to convert? I'd like to know your personal story of how you learned things and came to the conclusion that this was the path for you.
Please don't send me to Google, Amazon or Wikipedia, I'd like personal ideas.
There's a book I plan to pick up called Shiksa: The Gentile Woman in a Jewish World by Christine Benvenuto.
I was raised Catholic, btw, but gave up on that in 8th grade (12 years ago). My family is still very Catholic. My aunt dated a Jewish man once and she said "happy passover" to our family during our Easter dinner and I recall some family members acting as if she had said the worst thing in the world! So, if you converted, did you have issues with your family or friends?



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well whatever we both wanted to go further for a second round but we where almost cought so we stopped , the next day he came to me and ask me to come in the office so ok i thought maybe he wants to take it to the next level, but no he was telling me that we come from diffrent cultures and he can not do this out of his love for religion, and i asked him how does he feel about a women dancing ? would he ever divorce his wife for a dancer (his wife is opposite of me so she truelly hates sex)he said 'no' its to hard because his family would never accept this and he himself would never accept that i dance, i said ok then i will stop for you and he said no live your life its better for you, i could never accept the fact that you had this type of lifestyle it will always be in my head everytime i look at you, everytime we walk down the street i will keep on thinking: maybe all of these guys looking at you have got a lapdance from you....

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