Flipping Out

JTA reporter Ben Harris has an short but interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal discussing the Modern Orthodox practice of sending high school graduates to study in Israel.

In particular he reviews a new book, called Flipping Out, which chronicles those students who frum out in Israel and attempts to get statistics on these transformations that occur. (MORE)

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