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Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw by Elissa Altman Dictionaries Beauty is not just aThough culturally Jewish, Elissa Altman was not raised religious. Her mother, an aspiring actor, didnt feel the ancient teachings of the Talmud were relevant to modern life. Her father, the son of a cantor whose family died in the Holocaust, was the consummate rule breaker, caught between his spiritual hunger and his ongoing culinary affair with shellfish and spamall things treyf, that which is unkosher and therefore forbidden. Altmans youth was laced