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Michael Arsers

How Did a Reform Rabbi Become an Orthodox Jew?

June 17, 2005, by

My journey from Reform to Orthodox Judaism has taken many unusual turns. Perhaps the most unusual is that, despite living in Jerusalem and Brooklyn, it was not until I arrived in Peoria, Illinois, that I became a baal teshuvah. How did a Reform rabbi become an Orthodox Jew? I need to begin by explaining how