Tall, skinny, and with a grin from ear to ear, Charlie Kirk was in Eugene to flip our student government conservative. I began attending Shabbat dinners, meeting weekly with my rabbi to try to understand the covenant Charlie told me about. Adam Sharf with the Jewish community at the University of Oregon, soon after he first met Charlie Kirk. (Courtesy of the author)The irony still makes me smile: A Christian activist sent me down the path to becoming an Orthodox Jew. On his last night in Eugene, one of my running mates dropped Charlie at his hotel before an early flight.