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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
“A story that begs to be told. . . engrossing.” —The Washington Post
From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman's journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most admired religious…
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Born in the SF Bay Area, I grew up as a Reform Jew in a very non-Jewish small city in the 70s like Rabbi Buchdahl. I missed geography and math tests every Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and my teachers never understood why. Like Rabbi Buchdahl, I felt like an outsider even though both my parents were Jewish. She and I also went to the same Jewish Camp Swig, but while I was not a songleader, I inhaled the tunes of Debbie Friedman. Admittedly, I tended to skim some of the sermonic bits at the end of every chapter but…
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