Ozzie Friedman’s Hebrew school rabbi won’t answer his reasonable theological questions: Are Jews chosen? Overly tribal? And can God make a woman pregnant without intercourse?
In my favorite work of literature, Philip Roth’s hilarious “The Conversion of the Jews,” Ozzie rebels, and in pursuit of his own answers leads the rabbi and the whole synagogue community reconsider their Judaism.
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