@inbook{10.1525/j.ctt1pn599.17, ISBN = {9780520245457}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn599.17}, abstract = {My parents were fairly apathetic about my having a bar mitzvah. My father grew up in a home where there was essentially lip service to Judaism, and my mother’s family was antireligious. Judaism wasn’t really part of their script, although I have fond memories of Passover Seder with my extended family and of going to synagogue with my father on the High Holy Days. But I lacked the standardBubbeandZeyde[grandmother and grandfather] who would have given me warm Jewish memories, even of Yiddish being spoken around the house. They were sort of distant people.In some ways,}, author = {BOB ABERNETHY and HUSTON SMITH and JULIA SWEENEY and HAROLD KUSHNER and RAM DASS and ELIE WIESEL and DEEPAK CHOPRA and ROBERT THURMAN and COLEMAN BARKS and YUSUF ISLAM(CAT STEVENS) and ROZ CHAST}, bookauthor = {ARTHUR J. MAGIDA}, booktitle = {Opening the Doors of Wonder: Reflections on Religious Rites of Passage}, edition = {1}, pages = {152--159}, publisher = {University of California Press}, title = {Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin: ISRAEL AND I CAME OF AGE TOGETHER}, year = {2006} }