attendees, featuring panelists Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform), Ralph Reed (Christian Coalition), William Kristol (editor, The Weekly Standard), and David Horowitz (Center for the Study of Popular Culture). Also with Lapin, Medved helped revitalize the Pacific Jewish Center, an Orthodox synagogue in Venice, California. For fifteen years, Medved served as president of PJC, which states that its mission is outreach to unaffiliated and disconnected Jews. In his book Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life, he states that his commitment to religion led to his conservative political outlook. He is a baal teshuva (returnee to Orthodox Judaism). In November 2007, Medved became a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, hub of the intelligent design movement. On January 30, 2015, Medved announced during his live radio broadcast that he would take an indefinite leave of absence from the show to undergo treatment for throat cancer. He returned to the air on April 21. Books The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation, 2008, Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life, 2005, (explaining his conversion from being a liberal Democrat to conservative Republican) (paperback) Saving Childhood: Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence, coauthored with his wife, clinical psychologist and author Diane Medved, 1998, ; 1999, Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values, 1992, ; 1993, Son of Golden Turkey Awards (written with Harry Medved), 1986, The Hollywood Hall of Shame: The Most Expensive Flops in Movie History (written with Harry Medved), 1984, , (paperback) Hospital: The Hidden Lives of a Medical Center Staff, 1982, ; 1984, The Golden Turkey Awards, (which expanded on the earlier book. Co-written by his brother Harry Medved), 1980, The Shadow Presidents: The Secret History of the Chief Executives and Their Top Aides, (a history of the White House Chiefs of Staff), 1979, The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, 1978 What Really Happened to the Class of '65?, (written with David Wallechinsky), 1976, ; 1981 paperback, (paperback) References External links Official website "The Battles Of Tim Eyman" starring Michael Medved Official Blog 1948 births American film critics American Orthodox Jews American people of German-Jewish descent American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent American political commentators American political writers American conservative talk radio hosts American television talk show hosts Baalei teshuva Discovery Institute fellows and advisors American film historians American male non-fiction writers Film theorists Intelligent