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Rabbi Gabrielle takes leave from her rabbinical duties to pursue a doctorate in biblical studies at the University of Chicago. She is summoned to Israel by the Director of Antiquities in Jerusalem when her scholarly live-in boy friend cannot be found to help investigate the robbery of a newly discovered cave at Qumran, site of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. In the search to find him, Gabrielle becomes aware of her friend's involvement in this robbery and while attempting to shield him, gets swept into a cloak and dagger intrigue involving the Catholic Church and the Government of Israel.

Rabbi Gabrielle continues her personal and professional odyssey, this time toying with running for a seat in Congress. In the process she becomes entangled with a Korean computer geek who operates a successful on-line political campaign website for underfunded, unknown candidates. At the same time her congregation has lost a child burned to death in an accident lighting Hanukkah candles.

In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris - and to believe that God has a special destiny for her. When tragedy strikes her family, Esther views it as a warning from an angry God....

Rabbi Gabrielle, a young female rabbi in Washington, DC, is called upon to defend an accused rapist in court, imperiling her career. She must negotiate a hostile climate both in her synagogue and in the community, while attempting to live a normal life as an attractive, unmarried woman. Here is a chance to have an internal look at the life of a clergywoman in a profession that has long been a man's proprietary domain.

Rabbi Gabrielle succeeds the senior rabbi at Congregation Ohav Shalom and in this new role must perform a funeral for her favorite Bar Mitzvah boy, now a young man recently murdered in a remote Washington, D.C., park. This death brings her to a ghetto high school where the victim coached its struggling tennis team. An avid tennis player herself, Gabrielle attempts to keep the tennis team going and, because the police are unable to apprehend the murderer, investigates the crime. This brings her into conflict with Washington's thriving gun trade. Pursuit of the killer thrusts Gabrielle into the nation's spotlight, exactly where she doesn't want to be.

A prized Torah scroll is stolen from Ohav Shalom. The FBI determines the event to be a "Hate Crime" and initiates an investigation. But Rabbi Gabrielle unearths clues into the theft that lead in another direction. While intensely active in her daily rabbinical duties, her attention is drawn back 65 years to the origin of the stolen Torah in the Ukraine. The discovery brings this liberal rabbi into conflict with the powerful and well-organized Orthodox Jewish community in New York. Internecine warfare between Jewish denominations must be pacified before Rabbi Gabrielle can return to her post at Ohav Shalom.

Nell'epoca buia delle leggi razziali del fascismo, la tormentosa passione di un giovane professore ebreo per la bella e indecifrabile Sonia. In verità Sonia rappresenta l'inconsapevole simbolo dell'opposto, l'immagine dorata di una famiglia ricca, altolocata, reazionaria e soprattutto ariana. Nell'impari lotta, il giovane ebreo imboccherà la strada senza ritorno del cedimento per entrare nel geloso nucleo che in realtà non lo vuole.

Sophie, ebrea bella, colta ed elegante, nasce ad Aleppo negli anni '20. Studia in Francia e dopo essere sfuggita alle leggi razziali si trasferisce in Italia con l'amato Maurice e la primogenita Aline. Nella Milano del dopoguerra si fa notare per lo stile anticonvenzionale: è una giovane donna sofisticata e benestante che con le figlie parla solo in francese e preferisce andare alla Scala invece che in sinagoga.

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris' ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap in to the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik - a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts.

Sweeping from Russia to Jerusalem, from New York to Nazi-occupied Germany, and finally to Israel, this is the richly layered story of an extraordinary woman whose epic struggle mirrors the battle of an emerging nation to forge its own identity. Chavala Rabinsky is 16 when her mother dies and she becomes the caretaker of her five siblings. Beautiful and wise beyond her years, Chavala catches the eye of Dovid Landau, a poor cobbler whose dreams transform her life when he marries her.

A witty and touching novella about life on the periphery of academia and Hollywood. Robert is an adjunct, a university lecturer commuting between two-far flung Los Angeles colleges. He doesn't have health insurance - a serious problem when he develops a violent allergy to student writing. Meanwhile he's trying to keep his car, and his relationship with a successful but skittish TV writer, from falling apart.

I Rosenthal non sono una famiglia come le altre. Eric e Hannah sono ebrei osservanti e vivono con i tre figli – Gideon, Elsie e Tovyah – e nonno Yosef, sopravvissuto alla Shoah, in una villa nella zona nord di Londra. Avvocato mite e dai modi cortesi lui, giornalista oltremodo ambiziosa lei, entrambi credono profondamente nella verità, parola per parola, dell’Antico Testamento, dunque in una vita dove Dio (e il demonio) sono presenti in ogni istante. Vita densa di fede e di precetti in cui i tre ragazzi, ciascuno per sé, crescono faticosamente in cerca di uno spazio proprio.

È il 1938 e la tredicenne Sofia vive in una masseria nel Gargano insieme alla sua grande famiglia, affollata di fratelli, cognate, nonni e nipoti. In quella casa ci sono tante stanze da letto quante le dita di una mano, e tutte ruotano attorno a quella centrale, che è bianchissima, misteriosa e nessuno vi può accedere. È la stanza del Santo: lì accadono i prodigi, ci si va solo per fare i figli. Sofia sa che lei non varcherà mai quella soglia. Suo padre, con "parole che hanno i denti", le ha spiegato che un marito vuole una donna utile, e che lei non lo è.

Odessa, Ucraina, 1918. Mentre infuria la guerra civile fra rossi e bianchi, sette uomini sono in piedi contro un muro, davanti al plotone di esecuzione. Un attimo prima che i soldati bolscevichi aprano il fuoco, un ufficiale nota un nome nell’elenco dei condannati a morte e chiede se per caso è il famoso giocatore di scacchi. L’uomo risponde di sì. L’ufficiale non è convinto. "Facciamo una partita", gli propone. "Se perdi significa che menti e verrai fucilato. Se vinci sei davvero il campione di scacchi e ti lasceremo andare."

1931: Der Alltag im von der Wirtschaftskrise gebeutelten Berlin ist schwer. Fines Mutter Ulla Dehmel gelingt es kaum, für ihre Kinder zu sorgen. Schließlich ist sie gezwungen, Fine und ihre Geschwister bei einer Pflegefamilie auf dem Land unterzubringen. Zunächst ist Fine entsetzt, dass sie Berlin verlassen muss, aber nach und nach arrangiert sie sich mit dem neuen Leben. Dann kommen die Nazis an die Macht, und es zeigt sich, dass Ullas Sorge um ihre halbjüdischen Kinder berechtigt war. Schon bald wird Fine ihr jüdisches Erbe zum Verhängnis und droht, ihre große Liebe zu zerstören.

Einst verriet er ihre Familie, jetzt sucht sie Vergeltung "Verräter" schmiert die 92-jährige Britta Stein an die Fassade von Ole Henryks Restaurant in Chicago. Sie schwört, dass der Däne, der von der ganzen Stadt als Held gefeiert wird, sich in Wahrheit im Zweiten Weltkrieg als Nazi-Kollaborateur schuldig gemacht hat. Um die Behauptungen der alten Dame zu beweisen, muss die Anwältin Catherine Lockhart tief in die Vergangenheit reisen. Und auch Enkelin Emma erfährt erstmals die wahre Geschichte ihrer Großmutter, deren Schwester Grethe im dänischen Widerstand kämpfte.