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Author's Book Focuses On Jews-By-Choice
JewishTimes.com by Adam
Stone Staff Reporter, JANUARY 11, 2002 Baltimore
Although Charles Rammelkamp has been Jewish since the age of 30, today, at 49 years old, he is still wrestling with the angel, so to speak. He continues to grapple with the implications of having chosen his own religious identity.
"Judaism is part ethnic, and I don't have that ethnic background," said Mr. Rammelkamp, a Michigan native. "I grew up celebrating Christmas for 30 years — not that it was invested with any theological thing about the son of God or whatever, but still, being Jewish has meant adopting different celebrations and coming to appreciate their significance, without feeling like an interloper or a fraud or a fake."
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