Chaim Potok
Potok is one of my all-time favorite authors. I was recently thrilled to semi-accidentally receive an autographed copy of one of his books…but I digress. Tonight, I stumbled on this anecdote about him on another blog:
My husband heard him talk at AU when he was a student. The one thing he really remembered was Potok talking about raising children in the faith. He was a liberal Jew, yet raised his children relatively “in the middle.” He drew a circle and said, “If everything inside this circle is Judaism, I’m over here on the left. I want to raise my children in the center so that they have lots of room to go to the left or the right and still be within the faith.”
It’s a fascinating story. While I don’t have any children of my own yet, I certainly can sympathize with the above sentiments. But is that possible? Is it ethical? What would the One up above think about it?
Josh Ambrose 
Not going to answer the posed question but did want to say that it’s really cool you have a signed copy of one of his works. Jealous.
October 28, 2009 at 11:26 am
Wuss!
…just kidding
October 28, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Did you read his latest book?
October 29, 2009 at 10:45 am
you mean last? which one are you referring to?
October 29, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I don’t remember actually, I just saw something about a book after The Chosen I did know bout. Yeah, his latest.
October 29, 2009 at 6:37 pm
There’s a lot of books after the Chosen. I’ve read a bunch of them, but not the very last one he wrote: Old Men at Midnight. I do own it, however….
October 29, 2009 at 6:42 pm