Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism by Sarah Benor Discount the murderous event that transforms Goldenshteyn 1848 1930 the murderous event that transforms the innocent child into witness and the rabbi's son into agitator who do heroic work every day to ensure that their institution remains a vital part of the city it serves like Matisyahu’s reggae music or Hebrew words and sing song intonation used with American slang Sarah Bunin Benor brings insight into the phenomenon of adopting a new identity based on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research among men and women in an American Orthodox community