My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith

I saw this book in "Entertainment Weekly" one day & though the idea of it was interesting... & interesting it was. I had NO IDEA how many laws the Jewish people follow still today & the ways of life that they follow. This book is Benyamin's journey - & it does have it funny moments, it does have its moments of insight & it definitely taught me alot - about Jewish culture & about Christianity from an "outsider's" view... The way he saw Christian book conventions & the idea that Stephen Baldwin is big in the Christian world made me laugh out loud. It was also interesting to see the take on Christmas - & it was a sad view to me - how it has become so commercial... something we know, but to see if from a fresh perspective was just a little eye opening...even the "Big" preachers of the day, this man left nothing out... visiting different demoninations, faiths, ways of worshipping, seeing what Easter is about... I even had a chuckle at his visit to "Winter Jam" as I know exactly which year he went... I went that same year... Makes me wonder who's in the crowd now too... someone who is trying to disect Christians? Would that make a difference in how you act if you knew someone was watching to learn from you? The book was a little long - but it is full of Jewish traditions & while interesting, it was a little long for me. Especially because the print in this book was so small & still over 200 pages, it just seemed like a long book. I did enjoy that in the end, this experience drew Benyamin deeper into his own faith... maybe I'm a Christian & I personally dont understand how you can deny the sacrifice of Christ... but I did appreciate his closing words of "Hanging with Jesus made me a better Jew"... that just shows a bit of how this book goes... I did find it interesting - I did learn from it