About

For an explanation of this blog’s title (“The Metaphrast.”), see this post.

For an explanation of this blog’s URL (“captainjew”), see this post.

I am a high school senior in suburban Dallas, an Academic Decathlete, a Puerto Rican, a candidate for conversion to Judaism under the auspices of the Conservative movement, a National Merit Finalist, a rollerblader, a bass guitarist, and an aspiring/armchair/amateur theologian and historian.

I hope you enjoy the blog.