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Shrier's protagonists, who have grown upcomfortable with secular America despite theirOrthodox upbringing and Jewish schooling, arespending time in Israel after graduation from highschool, theoretically devoted to the study oftraditional Jewish texts. They are exposed to amore radical brand of Orthodoxy, and they do notknow whether change is good, or what change meansfor their unformed identities. Some of the boyschange more than others; some put up a brave frontto protect themselves from change; one boy, it isalleged--and here's the ostensible dramaticmotivation for the play--commits suicide becausehe is confused and distressed by the Yeshivaatmosphere...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Twenty-Love in Jerusalem | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

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