Ami Ankilewitz, 34, weighs 39 pounds. He is lying on the front seat of car, because he cannot sit without support, and he occupies about half of the space that the seat creates. He is wearing leather pants, and sports a tattoo on his arm of the astrological sign Leo, and another that says, \”When love flies, the heart dies.\”
In 1997, stimulated by the controversy over whether non-Orthodox converts would be registered as Jews by the Israeli government — the latest battle in the \”who is a Jew?\” wars — The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles began making funds available to what it calls \”pluralism\” projects. The projects are programs and activities aimed at stimulating religious pluralism and supporting \”alternative\” forms of Judaism in Israel, as well as increasing Jewish knowledge among Israel\’s secular population.
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