The Cocktail Party Contrarian: Stumbling Into Some Honest Interfaith Dialogue

This was a story about a group of people so at home in their religious surroundings that they sometimes treat them with less-than-ideal reverence, I explained, adding that it was actually a sign of devotion.

InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington via Wikimedia Commons
Images in the logo of the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington via Wikimedia Commons

I had lunch the other day with a friend who isn’t Jewish but found himself at an Orthodox synagogue recently. He was half laughing, and half appalled, as he recounted to me what he found there.

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