Erkan's
paternal grandparents were Romanian Jews who, in the 1930s, fled the Nazis for safety in Turkey.  He is 28 years old and the son of a Jewish father and a Muslim mother.  In the 1960s his parents emigrated from Turkey to Germany where his father secretly practiced his Judaism in the German Muslim community.  Erkan chose Judaism as his religion while his brother decided on Islam.  Until his father's death he was unaware of the need of the conversion process because he had always identified as being Jewish.  When his father was buried in an Islamic cemetery because of his secret life as a Jew he realized that it was necessary for him to make his commitment to Judaism official and known.

Emma,
age 55, lives in the "Deep South" of the United States.  She describes her discontent with Christianity since childhood as feelings of dissatisfaction with the doctrine that one religion damned the people of other religions to "Hell" for not believing as they do.  Reading the Torah opened a new world of the "greatness and singularity of God" and she was able to realize her uncertainties about Christianity and her assurance of God through Judaism.

Craig
comes from a cattle property in the "Outback" of Queensland, Australia and from a Protestant Anglican background.  Through extensive readings and studies in theology he came to believe that it is our own experiences and values that determine our future, not those that dogma dictate that we must accept without question.  He came to know that it was Judaism that offered him what he was searching for.  With his conversion at age 27 he says, "I have found my spiritual home".

Brad,
from Texas and of a Southern Baptist upbringing, began to question his base in Christianity at approximately age 12.  Over the years he abandoned all aspects of organized religion then, feeling a spiritual void, he began to study the various religions of the world.  Through this study he came to develop his own philosophy, his definition of God, and began to establish what his relationship with God was to be.  He found that the product of his search was what Judaism is.  Brad describes his process to conversion as, "wandering in the desert for many years before determining that (his) beliefs coincided with those of Judaism".  He undertook formal conversion at age 51.