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Moses married a Midianite convert. Ruth converted to Judaism and King David was one of her descendants. One of the first great translations of the Hebrew Bible was made by a man known as Onkelos the Proselyte (that is to say, the convert). Jews still study the Targum of Onkelos (a translation into Aramaic) to this day.
True, Jews haven't traditionally sought converts for 2000 years, and there are two good reasons: Until recently, under Christian and Islamic law, converts to Judaism were condemned to death, so to actively seek converts would put people's lives at risk. And, Jewish tradition does not say that non Jews are automatically condemned to Hell, so there is no need to convert people in order to save their souls. Jewish tradition holds that "all the righteous of the world have a place in the world to come." Therefore, the only obligation Jews have, from the point of view of saving souls, is to urge people to live righteous lives.
For a religion that has no strong missionary bent and a tradition of warning Jews about the risks of conversion, the number of converts to Judaism these days is surprisingly large.
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No, Judaism has allowed conversion from the start. Tzipporah, the wife of Moses, was the daughter of a Midianite priest. Ruth, an ancestor of King David, was a Moabite convert. Jews do not seek converts, but they welcome converts. Conversion to Judaism requires a long course of study and approval by a beit din, a rabbinic court composed of 3 judges. Jews don not consider conversion to be required for a person to be accepted by God, and they recognize that conversion is both hard and exposes converts to attack by antisemites.
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