Qesher Book Club: Partly Strong, Partly Broken
Hosted By: Qesher
Qesher presents a session on “Partly Strong, Partly Broken,” a contemporary American novel about how political and global conflicts fracture a local community, set in a suburban New Jersey interfaith neighborhood in fall 2023. The novel follows Rabbi Adinah as she returns from Haifa to find her synagogue damaged by a hurricane and her congregation increasingly divided in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel and the devastation in Gaza, while a young Syrian refugee she mentors lies in a coma after a hate crime. The novel explores identity, faith, and moral conflict, asking what it means to be a Jew in America today and how people respond when deeply held values collide.
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