Rabbi Gabrielle's Defiance (45 page)

Book III: Rabbi Gabrielle's
Defiance

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. Gabrielle must grapple with accusations
against her talented but sensitive associate rabbi for
unprofessional incompetence and a nasty law-suit leveled against
Ohav Shalom. Arson is the subject and Rabbi Gabrielle becomes a
hound dog on scent, all the while wrestling with a new romance in
her life.

Book IV: Rabbi Gabrielle Commits a
Felony

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.

Book V: Rabbi Gabrielle Ignites a
Tempest

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.