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The Non-Orthodox Jew’s Guide to Orthodox Jews
The Non-Orthodox Jew’s Guide to Orthodox Jews offers an all-encompassing view of Orthodox Jews’ beliefs and actions and explains the issues that non-Orthodox Jews often find puzzling or exasperating. Readers will encounter surprisingly refreshing discussions of topics such as happiness, good and evil, personal integrity, suffering, heaven and hell, prophecy, prayer, charity, economics, feminism, love and sexuality, marriage, evolution, morality, political correctness, assimilation, intermarriage and Zionism. They will also discover that Orthodox Jews are modern, twenty-first-century men and women who embrace the benefits of modern society while affirming and perpetuating an all-important chain that stretches back more than three millennia.
365 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2010
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January 27, 2026
this book made me more passionate about judaism, so i’m grateful fradee lent it to me. i need a pocket size copy in my back pocket so i can pull it out when a pro palestinian is shouting nonsense and shove the facts in their face (it won’t help, because they hate the truth). i also find it extremely cool that this book was written pre october 7, and yet the facts remain the same. oh, and i’m definitely stealing the line “i don’t give a flying falafel,” especially now since one of my 2026 goals is to remove curse words from my vocabulary entirely.
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i can’t save my favorite lines/passages since it will take forever and just stress me out so i will just mention the pages i bookmarked:
pg.8
pg.13
pg.15
pg.157
pg.200
pg.202
pg.212
pg.220
pg.222
pg.229
pg.250
pg.298
pg.301
pg.303
pg.316
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pg.320
pg.324
pg.325
pg.327
pg.331
pg.333
pg.335
February 2, 2011
He was so arrogant that his opinion was right, and that Orthodoxy is the best for all Jews and he just went on and on about many of his points. He needed a good editor, which I don't think he had. It is a self-published book, and he didn't seem to get any stamps of approval from anyone for it.
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