On the way in, you may have noticed a bunch of advance endorsements for the book rotating off and on at this site’s homepage. For those of you who don’t have the patience or proper hand-eye coordination to watch the flash animation (even though we’ve generously provided a virtual bobblehead Jesus for you to bobble), here’s a rundown of all the kind authors and bigwigs who have offered advance praise for this book:

1. “Benyamin Cohen spends a year on a fascinating and thought-provoking inter-faith exploration. The resulting witty memoir should appeal to Christians and Jews alike (as well as Wiccans, Jains and Bahais, for that matter).” -- A.J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically.

2. “Cohen’s witty and trenchant observations on identity and interfaith relations are like an early Christmukkah present.” -- Rob Kutner, author and writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

3. “Benyamin Cohen’s My Jesus Year is an insightful, moving, and hysterical journey about finding one’s faith -- no matter the faith. Ultimately, it helps us understand something we probably should have known all along: Jew, Christian, Muslim -- we’re all the same and we’re all looking for the same answers. The beauty of Cohen’s very funny memoir is that he never panders to his audience. While he’s an outsider looking in, he’s an outsider with the warmest of hearts and the purest of intentions. A fantastic and very human memoir.” -- Jonathan Kesselman, writer/director of The Hebrew Hammer.

4. “A witty, incisive, cross-cultural sojourn. A banquet of kasha and cornbread.” -- Mark Pinsky, religion reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and author of A Jew Among the Evangelicals, The Gospel According to the Simpsons, and The Gospel According to Disney.

5. “This is the unlikely story of an Orthodox Jewish journalist on a yearlong pilgrimage to Christian churches -- ostensibly to check out the competition and bring back secrets for reviving Jewish spirit. Cohen is a nervous-funny, neurotic-guilty, and unflinchingly introspective narrator, who tours us through varieties of American religious experience rarely witnessed by most Jews, from riding up in a skylift for Jesus at dawn, to entering a Catholic confession booth under false pretenses. As he takes us along, we see a deeper personal mission unfolding, he is opening his heart wide -- and rediscovering the Jewish soul.” -- Rodger Kamenetz, author of The History of Last Night’s Dream and The Jew in the Lotus.

6. “Only an extremely talented son of a rabbi married to a now-converted-to-Judaism daughter of a minister could have written this remarkable book -- deeply moving, inspiring, informative and, surprisingly enough, humorous as well. Benyamin Cohen takes us on a journey of enlightenment about other faiths that allows us to finally realize how and why he has found his own path that links him to the God of his ancestors and his people.” -- Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Judaism.

7. “Cohen’s book is a must-read and a breath of fresh air in this era of deep religious divisiveness. He shows how, when one approaches other faith traditions with respect and openness, it can be an inspirational, even transformational experience -- even if we disagree about the beliefs themselves. Cohen writes with depth, warmth, intelligence, and great wit. This very accessible book will appeal to Jew and Gentile alike and show us that our spiritual homes are, ultimately, where our hearts are.” -- Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein is the author of Gonzo Judaism, Lost Souls, and God at the Edge, and spiritual leader of The New Shul in Manhattan.

8. “Imagine a Kosher Don Quixote and you’ll appreciate Benyamin Cohen’s picaresque quest for spiritual and personal meaning among the far-flung outposts of Christendom. Like Quixote, Cohen is both idealist and naïf, armed with wicked irony and a willingness to skewer hypocrisy on both sides of the Judeo-Christian divide.” -- Vincent Coppola, author of Dragons of God: A Journey Through Far-Right America.