Non­fic­tion

Sex, God, Christ­mas and Jews: Inti­mate Emails About Faith and Life Challenges

Gil Mann
  • Review
By – March 23, 2012

The sky is the lim­it when it comes to the inter­net. Ask any ques­tion and it will be sure to be answered. Just ask Gil Mann. 

Sex, God, Christ­mas and Jews is a fas­ci­nat­ing book about Jews and Judaism. Mann, a well known name to fol­low­ers of Jew­ish inter­net sites, has com­piled a col­lec­tion of emails sent to him from peo­ple across the globe on a vari­ety of Jew­ish-based issues. 

This book asks and answers — and then Gil Mann does more. At the con­clu­sion of each chap­ter and at the end of the book the author offers his read­ers com­mon sense advice cou­pled with moral teach­ings and eth­i­cal direction.

Mann’s mes­sage to every­one out there — online or off — is that as long as you are argu­ing and act­ing in a Jew­ish con­text you are on a Jew­ish path. He does not eval­u­ate what is right or what is wrong; he does argue, how­ev­er, that the dis­cus­sion must be kept with­in the con­text of the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty. He sug­gests that once you step out of the com­mu­ni­ty, your voice is lost. 

The ques­tions that are asked and the answers that are giv­en will amaze you. This book reveals what is tru­ly in the hearts and on the minds of today’s inter­net-savvy email­ing Jews.

Mic­ah D. Halpern is a colum­nist and a social and polit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor. He is the author of What You Need To Know About: Ter­ror, and main­tains The Mic­ah Report at www​.mic​ah​halpern​.com.

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