Sex, drugs and faith: the Rabbi's Daughter- Reva Mann
19 Marzo 2008
Reva Mann has caused scandal in the Orthodox community with her account of a life that veered between pious and promiscuous. She talks to Cassandra Jardine
Reva Mann lost her virginity in style. At the age of 15, she smuggled a boy into the Marble Arch synagogue, where her father was rabbi, and shouted out "Hallelujah" from the bima (pulpit) after the deed was done.
It was the start of a rebellion that took her first into excess and then, aged 22, into extreme religious observance, before she ended up somewhere in the middle.
Her comic and often poignant autobiography The Rabbi's Daughter shows her desperately searching - but for what? Love? Acceptance?
It certainly …
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