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D, it absolutely is possible to convert to Judaism. It's done all the time. I myself have helped guide people through the process.
That said, we do not proselytize, or attempt to actively recruit people to Judaism. The Jewish tradition has always taught us that it is perfectly possible to be a good person, and to please God, and achieve "eternal reward" (to the extent that the tradition believes there is such a thing for certain, or can agree on what it might be) without being Jewish. Judaism, we have always been taught is God's covenant with the Jewish people: it is not something demanded of others.
The way I look at it is that Judaism is how Jews should relate to God, what God expects of Jews. Presumably, God has other ways he expects others to relate to him.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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