Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Obviously Judaism is a huge subject, but I didn't do very well with your choice of video, jwb. I watched about 3 mins of some intrusive journalist deliberately baiting a young, mild-mannered Jewish guy with obscure, hard-to-defend Talmud quotes, by which time I was too offended to continue. Perhaps the video would be better employed in a Media Studies course: How Not To Conduct An Interview.

AFAIK, the Jewish community in England is extensive but dispersed. They are assimilated rather than orthodox. That's why this excellent novel, which takes a peak into Hassidic Jews in New York, was such an eye-opener to me. Easy to read and highly recommended, it's like the Catcher In The Rye guy got off at the wrong subway stop and found himself in a completely different New York.



Has anybody here read The Chosen by Chaim Potok? I'm also curious to know: is it a well-known book in the US?

Originally Posted by rostasi

In another thread, I mentioned a composer friend from Norway.
With the last name of Goldstein, he'll sometimes mention some
"firsts" concerning being Jewish in Norway. He lives in Ågotnes.