{"id":692,"date":"2012-02-20T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=692"},"modified":"2012-02-05T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:21:28","slug":"the-choosing-a-rabbis-journey-from-silent-nights-to-high-holy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/the-choosing-a-rabbis-journey-from-silent-nights-to-high-holy-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choosing: A Rabbi\u2019s Journey from Silent Nights  to High Holy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/choosing.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-693\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"choosing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/choosing.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/624056410\">Myers, Andrea. <em>The Choosing: A Rabbi\u2019s Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days<\/em>. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011. Paperback. 185p. $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-8135-4957-6.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story of a Lutheran girl\u2018s transformation from (outwardly) straight, rich, medical schoolbound girl to Jewish,\u00a0lesbian, rabbi. Demonstrating<br \/>\nthrough personal\u00a0experience and\u00a0allegories from the Jewish texts,\u00a0Myers shares wisdom, knowledge,\u00a0successes, and failures as she\u00a0navigates finding herself spiritually,\u00a0religiously, sexually, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Painting images with her words,\u00a0these vignettes illustrate the power\u00a0of love and the value of being true to\u00a0oneself, as well as the importance of\u00a0keeping an open and humorous view\u00a0toward life.<\/p>\n<p>Whether recalling a Lutheran\u00a0mother changing the menorah lights\u00a0to be more colorful, or the security\u00a0agent warning against &#8220;being like one\u00a0of those&#8221; people of whom one is a\u00a0part, this book will provide inspiration\u00a0and a new outlook to many.<\/p>\n<p>While the content is strongly\u00a0Jewish and has aspects only someone\u00a0familiar with Jewish traditions will\u00a0appreciate, explanations and\u00a0definitions of terms and activities are\u00a0integrated seamlessly into the\u00a0narrative, enabling all to enjoy the wit\u00a0and knowledge being shared.<\/p>\n<p>Spanning a childhood spent\u00a0questioning traditions and religion,\u00a0college life as a non-Jew at Brandeis\u00a0University, the decision to convert to\u00a0Judaism and the conversion process,\u00a0living in Jerusalem, finding love, life\u00a0as a wife, mother, and rabbi, this\u00a0book will resound not only with those\u00a0questioning their religion and beliefs\u00a0but also those questioning their sexuality and seeking words of guidance and advice on how to successfully be true to oneself.<\/p>\n<p>This biographical narrative is a must add to any Jewish or GLBT collection for adults or young adults.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: <strong>Sine Nomin<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myers, Andrea. The Choosing: A Rabbi\u2019s Journey from Silent Nights to High Holy Days. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011. Paperback. 185p. $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-8135-4957-6. The story of a Lutheran girl\u2018s transformation from (outwardly) straight, rich, medical schoolbound girl to Jewish,\u00a0lesbian, rabbi. Demonstrating through personal\u00a0experience and\u00a0allegories from the Jewish texts,\u00a0Myers shares wisdom, knowledge,\u00a0successes, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}