I just found the blog Orthodox Apprentice which has great background information about the Jewish finalist Lee Bienstock. It also has an interview with Lenny, who it turns out is a lot less anti-religious than the producers made him out to be.
Some interesting points:
- One of the tasks was during Sukkos and Lee did not take the day off but the comments suggest that maybe he didn't "work" on the task in his usual way. (There is an interesting debate in the comments about whether this is a chilul Hashem, or even a kiddush Hashem.)
- As I mentioned above, Lenny actually liked Lee from the beginjning and claims in the interview that he never had a problem with his taking off time for the holiday, but rather was saying that it is not looked at positively in the working world. He also went to shul for part of Yom Kippur and fasted even as he worked on the task.
- Tarek is quoted with praise for Lee's faithfulness to his beliefs and says that he was surprised that Lee didn't take off for Sukkos.
I haven't finsihed reading the whole site but want to do so before the show tomorrow. Go Lee!
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So did you see it last night? I am a little worried about Lee's abilities to pull through...
I just wanted to say, thanks for visiting my blog! Maybe next time we venture northeast, my family and yours could accidentally run into each other at Abba's! ;)
(It is guaranteed that we will either run into someone we know at Abba's, or we will meet someone who knows someone we know - forget SIX degrees of separation - this is Jewish Geography, after all!)
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