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10. John Grisham's "The Frum".... Young JTS prodigy
student gets recruited by an elite ultra orthodox sect, only to find out
he is not ready to live under all 613 mitzvoth.
9. James Patterson's "Kiss the Shiksas".... A cat and
mouse tale searching for the key to solving the Jewish assimilation problem.
8. Stephen King's "Tallis-man".... Castle Rock, ME,
resident finds out he is Jewish and goes through a horrid search to find
a tallis in the state in Maine. It gets gory at the end.
7. John Irving's "The Fourth Hand"... Halachic questions
abound when a boy with two extra appendages puts on Tefillin for the first
time
6. Faye Kellerman's "The Ritual Bath"...her first non-Jewish
book follows a "goy" into the world of baptism.
5. Dean Koontz’s "One Door Away From Shamayim".... One
woman's search for aliens in the Torah
4. JK Rowling’s "Hershel Potter and the Moses Tablets"...Child
attends kabalah workshop, accompanied by his pet herring, only to discover
he is a tenth generation Kohain without any magical powers.
3. Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red Hefer"... the greatest
espionage coup in second temple history. Sean Connery searches for a perfect
red cow to atone for his people’s sins underwater.
2. Michael Crichton’s "Jewrassic Park" group of Chassidic
biochemists hide island of dinosaurs to protect creationist theory of
history.
1. John Franzen’s "the Corrections"..A family of Biblical
revisionists have to deal with Oprah Winfrey coming over for Shabbat dinner.
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