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Jennifer Anne Moses left out an appropriate life in top of the echelons of East Coast Jewish culture to maneuver with her husband and kids to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Trying to find link with her surroundings, she chose to volunteer at an AIDS hospital. But as she experienced a tradition filled by French Catholics and Evangelical Christians, African-Americans and Cajuns, non-profit nurses and nuns, ex-cons, street-walkers, impoverished AIDS sufferers, and healers of lines, she discovered she'd started on an urgent journey of serious self-discovery.       In a very observed memoir that holds both pathos and wit, Moses takes us right into a world that's strange and unfortunate but also suffused with the sacred. As experience to severe difficulty and serious poverty, Moses finds a further commitment to her very own faith—Judaism that requires not for blind idea, but instead everyday commitment.