Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press by Eddy Portnoy New Year When non-Orthodox Jews become frum

When non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious)

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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press by Eddy Portnoy New Year When non-Orthodox Jews become frumListen to our podcast with author Eddy Portnoy here: Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weirdJews who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw,