Rabbi Tovah Feldner and her husband, Dan Goldin, love each other. Even at the moment when Dan is planning to leave his wife and two small children, their love is still evident Dan has deep emotional hurts he has never shared. Now he feels he must set out on a search to solve the physical problem of their three-year-old daughter Leah, born prematurely, and with Cerebral Palsy symptoms. Leah's birth had delayed Tovah's beginning her first job after Seminary and Tovah, a perfectionist, has never been able to put aside the anxiety about her job, even after she has worked at Temple Isaiah for...

When Dave Razkowski falls from the rock-face he's climbing, he's forced to deal with not only his serious physical injuries, but with the psychological injuries and powerful impact the Holocaust has had on survivors' children. Just as young Isaac of the Bible is unwittingly bound as an intended sacrifice to his father Abraham's past experiences and his spiritual beliefs, so are Dave, Wolff Blumen and Al Logan unwittingly and unwillingly bound to each other, because of their parents' experiences in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Struggle as they might against these invisible...

Marnie Holland had been an academic prodigy, gone to college in her home town, Santa Barbara at 15. At 19 she discovered her Jewish background, completely changed course and began to study Judaism seriously, To continue her studies she went to Israel where she made a disastrous marriage to a somewhat older orthodox man older with two children. The marriage lasted barely three years. Forcibly separated from her stepchildren she left her husband, and, with the help of her parents ended it, but only after an official 'Jewish" divorce, a get, cost her father a great deal of money. No one in her...