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Jew in Alaska | Official Trailer | Oorah

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my first genuine shabbos he was like yeah no phone to the table and i was like oh dude this is this is not cool [Music] people have always asked me like how some like roughneck country boy from western massachusetts turned from and it's kind of a it's kind of a crazy journey i mean it's still ongoing for sure i asked my mom like what are we you know like am i supposed to be doing these things that kids at school are doing and she said look you know i'm jewish your dad's catholic and you have the ability to choose in my formative mind i was thinking like well if i choose to be jewish like we'll probably still celebrate christmas but i'll get more gifts so we should be jewish um so at that point like my decision to be jewish was solely based on how many presents i would get um rabbi greenblatt asked me what are you doing this weekend and i was like i don't know i'd probably go to the football game and he was like you should come to the shabbaton i was like what's that and he's like it's where you hang out with a bunch of jews for the weekend so i drive down to lakewood and i'm like i noticed like we're not in kansas anymore like this place is jewish right when i first got here there was like no kosher food i went there's one supermarket in town and i went there and i was like you guys have kosher food he's like what's that you