Source: Newsday

On December 29, 2001, Newsday featured an article on three stories of religious conversion. Harpritam Kaur describes her spiritual journey to her conversion to Sikhism. "One Sunday morning in 1997 as she walked past a gas station on her way to church, she saw a young man wearing a turban pacing back and forth and praying. 'You could see the love of God in this man,' she recalls. Kaur says she thought he was a Muslim - at the time she didn't know who the Sikhs were - until she stopped to talk to him... Kaur began attending the Sikh Cultural Society in Richmond Hill, Queens." Michael Mitchell, a twelve-year-old boy, was inspired by Catholic school to convert. Later his mother and grandmother, former Lutherans, also converted to Catholicism. The article ends with the story of Janice Greenberg who converted to Judaism. "She enrolled in a class... at The Community Synagogue in Port Washington. It was there she would meet Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, a person who would change her life. 'Rabbi Salkin opened up a completely different view of Judaism,' she says. 'It was OK to question. It was OK to be modern - to take your life now and frame it around Judaism instead of taking Judaism and framing your life around it.'"