[Laura Schlessinger] Dr. Laura Renounces Jewish Orthodoxy Item 3999 • Posted: 08/13/2003 • Weblogged by Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/archives/00003999.html Forward, Aug. 15, 2003 http://www.forward.com/ By LISA KEYS, FORWARD STAFF With 12 million Americans tuning in daily, controversial syndicated radio- show host Laura Schlessinger — known to all as "Dr. Laura" — is arguably the best-known Orthodox Jew in the United States. Rather, she was. In a little-noticed pronouncement, Schlessinger — who very publicly converted to Judaism five years ago — opened her radio show, "The Dr. Laura Schlessinger Program," with the revelation that she will no longer practice Judaism. Although...