It's All in the Family: The Curious Case of Mary Ben-Gurion

Published: Jan. 4, 2020, 7:52 p.m.

Amos Ben-Gurion was the son of David & Paula Ben-Gurion. While serving in the Jewish Brigade in the British Army during World War II, he was wounded and wound up in a Liverpool hospital. While there, he was taken care of by a nurse named Mary Callow. They eventually decided to get married despite the fact that Mary was Christian. There thus followed a sage of the attempted conversion of Mary to enable her to become Mary Ben Gurion. The conversion was eventually done by a German born American Reform Rabbi named Joachim Prinz, known for his activism in the Civil Rights Movement.\nSubscribe To Our Podcast on:\xa0\n\xa0\nPodBean:\xa0https://jsoundbites.podbean.com/\n\xa0\n\nFollow us on Twitter or Instagram at\xa0@Jsoundbites\nYou can email Yehuda at\xa0yehuda@yehudageberer.com