Rabbi Celso Cukierkorn and Craig Barrett pause for a prayer during the mikvah ceremony (immersion in a body of water) which is part of the Jewish conversion ceremony.

Barett 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."