Ahuvah Gray
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Ahuva Gray (née Delores Gray) is a writer on religion and memoirist. She is a former Baptist minister who converted to Judaism and chronicled her changing beliefs in the book My Sister, the Jew, published in 2001.
Biography
Gray is African-American and was born to a Baptist working-class family in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago. She is a relative of baseball player Lorenzo Gray.
Gray worked for 23 years as a flight attendant, living in Los Angeles. She came a Baptist minister.[1] She began to doubt Christianity when she found what she believed were discrepancies in the New Testament. Her discovery prompted a process of searching for a renewed faith. Eventually she found and studied Judaism; Gray believed that the Torah made the most sense. In 1996, she gave up her position as a Christian minister and completed conversion to become an Orthodox Jew. She took the name of Ahuva.[2]
She has written a book about this journey, entitled My Sister, the Jew (2001).
Since the late 20th century, Gray has lived in Bayit VeGan, Jerusalem.[3]
References
- ^ "Ahuvah Gray". Ahuvah Gray. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- ^ "Ahuva Gray". Jewishmag.com. February 2003. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- ^ Mordechai S Chiller (Summer 2006). "A Former Minister Finds Torah" (PDF). Jewish Action. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
Bibliography
- My Sister the Jew Philipp Feldheim Inc, (2001) ISBN 1-56871-276-6
External links
- American Orthodox Jews
- Converts to Judaism from Baptist denominations
- Converts to Orthodox Judaism
- Living people
- American emigrants to Israel
- Israeli people of African-American descent
- African-American Jews
- African-American former Christians
- Jewish women writers
- Flight attendants
- American women writers
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- 21st-century African-American women