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The book is about her personal spiritual journey toward God. She’s the daughter of a Jewish father and a “lapsed Southern Baptist” mother who divorced when she was young. She was raised to be Jewish, but she had to officially “convert” to Judaism since her mother isn’t Jewish. She became an Orthodox Jew – a strict and traditional form of Judaism – wearing long skirts, keeping the Sabbath laws, and learning Hebrew. Nearly all her closest friends were Jewish. She dated Jewish guys – although those guys wouldn’t marry her because she was a convert and for various reasons they wanted to marry a girl from a traditional Jewish home. She ate Jewish food. Her Judaism engulfed every aspect of her life. Continue reading →