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The Rabbi Wore Bell-Bottoms: A Novel Memoir
- Narrated by: Art Novak
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Drafted into the army fresh out of grad school, Dan Berman questions organized religion and feels ambivalent about his Jewish faith. When he finds himself assigned Jewish Chaplain's Assistant at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, he finds himself.
It's 1970. American soldiers kill women and children in Vietnam. Catholics and Protestants do battle in Northern Ireland. Muslims and Jews murder one another in Israel. Viewing all this through a stateside lens, Dan has mixed emotions about the cards humanity has dealt him.
Then he meets Harriet, Lutheran daughter of the head chaplain on post, Colonel Harold Marshall. One night the colonel discovers Dan and Harriet bedding down together at the Jewish Center. The fallout dovetails with other religious tension simmering at the fort, escalating into satirical jabs at the divisiveness of religion. The fort becomes a microcosm of a war-torn world.
As all heaven and hell break loose, Dan relies on his kindhearted rabbi's wise and witty advice to navigate religion and romance. The Rabbi Wore Bell-bottoms grapples with the ways religion colors our perceptions and feelings.
The humorous, humanistic voice of Dan Berman will keep you alternately musing and amused. If you are involved in - or contemplating - an interfaith relationship, The Rabbi Wore Bell-Bottoms was recorded with you in mind. If you are simply the curious, questioning type, it will enhance your understanding of the mass exodus from organized religion.