The University of Minnesota Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to present its Ninth Annual Community Lecture Series, in cooperation with synagogues and other sponsoring partners across the greater Twin Cities. Join us as writers and thinkers from varied fields address intriguing questions relevant to the Jewish experience today.
This talk demonstrates how there is more to becoming Orthodox than observing religiouslaws. Newly Orthodox Jews, or ba’alei teshuva (lit. ‘those who return’), encounter a very different culture,including new ways of talking, dressing, and acting. Focusing on the Yiddish- and Hebrew-influenced Englishspeech of Orthodox Jews, this lecture explores how “BTs” integrate into the community partly by taking onthese new practices.
