Shirley Ann Newman is Jewish by birth, and since adulthood by conviction. After 25 years of Torah study and a few of writing articles for the religion section of her local newspaper, The Bakersfield Californian, she felt compelled to write several books on the faith system's wide range of interesting issues. This book exhibits the author's insights and perspectives as well as those of Jews, Jewish converts, and non-Jews in the central valley of California...