My Journey Home

ISBN-13: 9781513623580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 220 str.

Steve Riback; Herb Jaffe

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My Journey Home is the Steve Riback story. It's the tale of guts and courage and the furthest reaches of God-given inner strength. In Yiddish terminology, it might best be characterized as a story of chutzpah -- a combination of audacity and bravado. It's the story of a young Steve Riback, born into the Jewish faith, but whose family never practiced Judaism. Admittedly, during his growing-up years he could not conceive what it meant to be Jewish. But this is also the story of an extreme transformation, of a grown Steve Riback who today regularly attends synagogue with his wife and children, and who religion is tightly woven into the faith and practices of Judaism. It portrays in fervent detail how Riback, a member of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, fought a lonely and haunting battle for years against a veiled derisiveness from non-Jewish peers...and all because he sought the right to wear a beard and a head-covering, in conformance with his religion. Ultimately, that right prevailed, thanks to the courts and the U.S. Constitution, just as it has in police departments elsewhere in America. But until that right prevailed, this is the gripping and passionate saga of Steve Riback's Journey Home.