Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th, by Jeannie Suk Gersen in the New Yorker

 I was moved by this New Yorker article by Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen

Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th
For decades, I maintained a status quo of living like a Jew without being one. When I finally pursued conversion, I discovered that I was part of a larger movement born of crisis.  By Jeannie Suk Gersen

"The Talmud says that a person who comes to a court to convert is to be questioned as to his motivation and asked, “Don’t you know that the Jewish people at the present time are anguished, suppressed, despised, and harassed, and hardships are frequently visited upon them?”