Background and Family
Brickner was born and raised in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Brickner describes himself as a fifth-generation Jewish believer in Jesus. However, in a letter to Orthodox Jewish author David Klinghoffer, Brickner wrote that his own mother "is not halachically Jewish," and Klinghoffer wrote that Brickner "is, by ancestry, a non-Jew," citing Jewish law.
Brickner married Patti Vasaturo in 1979; they have two children, Isaac and Ilana.
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