Jeffrey Ahrenson, fired from his teaching position in Brooklyn, transforms his disappointment to opportunity. An exceptional young teacher, Jeffrey becomes a disillusioned idealist who takes action against a corrupt and dysfunctional educational system. When the State Board of Regents investigates documented charges against Borough Hall High, a national think-tank, The Center for Educational Progress, hires Jeffrey, the whistle-blower, to go undercover as a student. First a prep school then an inner city school revel to "student" Jeffrey the malpractice, mismanagement, cronyism, fraud, test...

The Rabbi's Girl, a startling saga of rejection, revenge, and madness, travels the unmapped roads of the Great Depression. It charts a tossed-off girl's marriage to a Catskill boy to spite his gangster brother. The triangle infects religious values, loyalties, and family stability in an America plagued by the mob, Murder Incorporated, anti-Semitism, and indenture. Abe Rizer tethers his brother Sol to the mob and cheats him out of more than just a wife. Though Minnie comes full circle to a husband who loves her unconditionally-a man used, refused, and abused-it is disastrous. For her,...

In a highly controversial and publicized custody case, Jean DeMartino and her husband Nick battled a birth mother who revoked her legal surrender to a prominent New York adoption agency. After personally delivering the child to foster care, the mother changed her mind after the infant girl was already with adoptive parents in a loving home. The birth mother apologized to the court for any trouble her flip-flop caused. The court's decision to return that baby began a legal struggle that traversed the New York then Florida courts and finally the United States Supreme Court. Jean DeMartino,...