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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: NYT BEST SELLING AUTHOR TOD GOLDBERG and RABBI MARK BOROVITZ -- CRIMINAL BECOMES RABBI FACT AND FICTION
Description: IMPROVED AUDIO REMIXÂ CRIMINAL BECOMES RABBI : Tod Goldberg wrote it as fiction in Gangsterland and Gangster Nation, and Mark Borovitz lived it for real in Holy Thief
Fiction meets real life--Mark Borovitz was a mobster, gangster, con man, gambler, thief, and a drunk. Â He is now the rabbi at Beit T'Shuvah in Los Angeles, the House of Return, a rehabilitation facility for addicts of all kinds.
Tod Goldberg wrote Gangsterland and Gangster Nation about a mobster who hides out as a Rabbi in Las Vegas. Â Now a real mobster turned Rabbi and Tod Goldberg come tog...