Caroline’s Reviews > Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging > Status Update

This book became much better once she started her own professional religious journey. As a cantor and then a rabbi.

I was getting bored, so I skipped to the chapter on Oct. 7 (88%). Currently crying at work.

She converted orthodox- not because she wanted to be orthodox, but because she wanted the recognition from the rabbinut. Tbh, I understand. I still don’t like the way that she’s been treating orthodoxy and observance

Still feeling disappointed. I understand she’s reform, but I didn’t choose to read her book to hear her bash observant Jews

I started out really liking this book, but the more I get in to it the more I find out it’s very, very reform- to a level that seems to want to invalidate other movements (especially orthodoxy). She has treated orthodox people in her story thus far as if they have affronted her, instead of her recognizing that she was raised in a less observant movement and yes, sometimes things will happen that don’t make sense