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Becoming Jewish: It’s not easy to convert, but it happens in Utah more than most places

Some were Catholics. Some were Mormons. Some were atheists. But, in the end, they emerge as Jews. “It’s who I am,” says a convert.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rabbi Samuel Spector lets Deborah Rumi hold a Torah scroll in a final step of her conversion at Congregation Kol Ami in Salt Lake City.