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`Chosen By God'

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Newsweek reporter Joshua Hammer's compelling chronicle
of his brother's journey to fervent Orthodoxy, and
their quest for reconciliation.

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for close to 20 years. For most of
those years, as the brothers' paths grew
ever more divergent, they were barely
in touch with one another.
oshua Hammer is a Newsweek
In 1997, Joshua called Tuvia from
foreign correspondent who
his office in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
has lived on four continents
to suggest a get-together and was wel-
in four years and likes the fact
comed with warmth. The result was
that he's not sure where he'll be living
the beginning of reconciliation, and
two years from now. He's in his early
Tuvia's consent to cooperate on a book
40s, not married and admittedly
Joshua would write about their rela-
ambitious.
tionship and Tuvia's choice of a reli-
His brother Tuvia is four years
gious life.
younger, a fervently Orthodox Jew
In the beginning of Chosen By God:
who is married and the father of six
A Brother's Journey (Hyperion;
children, now working at his first-ever
$22.95), Joshua explains that his
full-time job after years of spending
motives in re-establishing contact were
his days engaged in talmudic study.
"located at the nexus where blood,
Born Tony Hammer, Tuvia has
emotion, curiosity, ambition and self-
lived in Monsey, in upstate New York,
interest collide. I had
There is something "very reassuring and comforting
spent years covering
about a slowed-down world that the religious life
alien societies in Africa,
represents," acknowledges the author. "American
poking into unfamiliar
society at the millennium is a world full of irony
rituals and customs. In
and technology, and a real sense of acceleration and
a similar way, I had
materialism and consumer craziness. ...You look at
begun to regard my
something like religion and you see a sense of permanence brother and his com-
and enduring values that mock the culture we live in."
munity with a kind of
journalistic detach-
ment. ... It was only
by approaching him
through the cold eyes
of a journalist, I felt,
that I could find a way
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to repair a rift and
restore a semblance of
completeness to my
family."
Over the years
many writers have
sought to open up the
world of fervently
Orthodox Jews to a
general audience —
from Chaim Potok's
classic The Chosen to
Lis Harris' Holy Days.
Several ba'al teshuvahs,
Jews who have
returned to traditional
Judaism, have written
of their journeys.
Chosen By God
stands out in that it is
a brother's journey
the compelling work
of an outsider and
insider: Joshua, who
knew very little about

SAN D EE B RAWARS KY
Special to the Jewish News

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