Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde by Rebecca Dana

Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde by Rebecca Dana

For a generation of women who grew up watching Sex and the City, Manhattan is the Promised Land--or as Rebecca Dana puts it in her hilarious, self-deprecating new memoir, it's 'my Jerusalem--the shining city off in the distance, the only place to go'. An] insightful tale of two fish out of water.--O Magazine

Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of moving to New York. After college, life in the city turned out just as she'd planned: glamorous parties; beautiful people; the perfect job, apartment and man. But when it all comes crashing down, she is catapulted into another world.

She moves into Brooklyn's Lubavitch community, and lives with Cosmo, a young Russian rabbi and jujitsu enthusiast. While Cosmo faces his disenchantment with Orthodoxy, Rebecca finds that her religion--the books and films that made New York seem like salvation--has also failed her. Shuttling between the worlds of religious extremism and secular excess, faith and fashion, Rebecca goes on a search for meaning.

A mix of Shalom Auslander and The Odd Couple, Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde is a thought-provoking tale for the twenty-first century.

Includes a Readers Guide

Rebecca Dana is a writer and journalist in New York. She is a former senior correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, where she wrote the weekly Social Diaries magazine column and reported on fashion, culture and entertainment. She has been a featured commentator on such shows as the Today show, The Joy Behar Show, Inside Edition, Access Hollywood, and NPR s On the Media and Fair Game with Faith Salie. She has made numerous appearances on MSNBC and CNN.

Before joining The Daily Beast, Dana was a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Observer. She has also been published in: Rolling Stone Magazine, Vanity Fair Italia, Slate, Men s Vogue, The Washington Post, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Men s Journal, and The New York Times. She attended Yale, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Daily News. She lives in Manhattan with her husband.

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ISBN 13	9780399158773
ISBN 10	0399158774
Title	Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde
Author	Rebecca Dana
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Year published	2013-01-24
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.