WHAT’S A NICE JEWISH GIRL DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS?

June 3rd, 2006

I just returned from a delightful lunch in Austin with a young woman who is helping me revise my memoir which chronicles our family’s fifteen year adventure in Charismatic Christianity. How’s that for an opening sentence?

As I watch our newly formed Reform fellowship implode because of back-biting, power grabbing and the ignoring of Jewish guidelines on how we should
resolve conflicts, I wonder anew at the sad condition of liberal Judaism in my home town.