Wow, I’ve really been getting a lot of email lately from new readers and fans! Thank you for sharing so many of your amazing stories with me! I hope that people can be patient awaiting my responses. I am no longer responding to every email but I do read all of them and I try to answer the most time sensitive ones as quickly as possible. For the next few months, I’m also avoiding committing myself to speaking or writing engagements or continuing to offer support to converts over the phone and Skype.

A couple of things to please keep in mind when reaching out to me for help. I’m not a social worker and am on the whole very unfamiliar with Jewish organizations in LA or elsewhere that can help if you’re dealing with a financial, health, job related crisis, etc. With queries of that nature, I do try to gather the most information I can and then forward it on to more knowledgeable friends who are social workers and might be able to direct you to the right place. But again, because my experience is so limited in this area, I don’t have the greatest track record of being able to help in these situations.

Again, I’m just a blogger, writer, speaker, teacher, Rebbetzin-in-training-wheels, etc. While I can probably connect you to a rabbi or community if you’re interested in converting or offer advice or support to someone just starting out the process, usually the most help I can offer someone is an ear or connections to others in similar situations. Outside of my limited area of “expertise” (freelance writing, blogging, speaking, Jews of color, Jewish diversity, Jewish multiculturalism, Jewish conversion), I’m pretty useless. For instance: Though I have linked to many different types of articles on adoption in the Jewish community, I do not know very much about it and will usually direct people to check out The Jewish Multiracial Network” or Be’chol Lashon or recommend they contact friends who have firsthand knowledge in this area.