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Religious appearances?
Religious appearances can be deceiving, I suppose, even to the initiated. Stephen Hirsch believes Jack Abramoff to have been raised "frum from birth"; Michael Crowley's "A Lobbyist in Full" in the May 1, 2005 New York Times Magazine tells a different story. Abramoff stems from a nonobservant Jewish family living in Beverley Hills, Crowley states; at the age of 12, Abramoff's life was changed by a screening of "Fiddler on the Roof." Crowley then quotes him, "I made the decision that I would become religious in order to preserve the faith in our family." Rushing out to buy books on Judaism, Abramoff's path to frumheit was largely self-discovered. Seems like his reading program was somewhat deficient in ethics though...