A Kosher Dating Odyssey: One Former Texas Baptist’s Quest for a Naughty & Nice Jewish Girl

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By Van Wallach ’80

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Coffeetown Press) Raised a Southern Baptist, Wallach began questioning his belief. Gradually he was drawn to his parents’ Jewish heritage, and later to the women who embodied it. In this humorous memoir of his search for faith and love, Wallach looks at the challenges of dating as an ex-Baptist, Jewish, intellectual, single man. Wallach is a journalist living in Connecticut.

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