{"id":2311,"date":"2008-10-08T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/rabbis-son-spends-a-jesus-year.html"},"modified":"2008-10-08T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T15:06:13","slug":"rabbis-son-spends-a-jesus-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/rabbis-son-spends-a-jesus-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi&#8217;s Son Spends a &#8216;Jesus Year&#8217; in Bible Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People go to church to seek answers. But seldom are those people sons of rabbis looking for insight into their own Jewish heritage. All of that changes with <a href=\"http:\/\/myjesusyear.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Jesus Year<\/a>, a new book by Benyamin Cohen that also bears the subtitle &#8220;A Rabbi&#8217;s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith,&#8221; and which <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jta.org\/telegraph\/2008\/10\/07\/1807\/benyamin-cohen-debuts-with-1-jewish-bestseller\/\" target=\"_blank\">debuted in the #1 position on Amazon&#8217;s Jewish Bestsellers List <\/a>its first day after publication.After asking himself questions about faith, Atlanta-dwelling Cohen arrives at one question: &#8220;What would it be like to be a Christian?&#8221; He then embarked on a journey that his website describes as &#8220;part memoir, part spiritual quest, and part anthropologist&#8217;s mission.&#8221;<!--more-->Among his adventures: he jumps into the mosh-pit at a Christian rock concert, has his face projected on the giant JumboTron of an African-American megachurch, visits a potential convert with two young Mormon missionaries, attends a Christian &#8220;professional wrestling&#8221; match, and waking up early for a sunrise Easter service on top of Stone Mountain&#8211; a Confederate memorial and former base of operations for the KKK.The MyJesusYear website reports that the result of the journey was that Cohen found his own Jewish faith strengthened. 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