📚 TBS Book Club: The Rabbi Who Prayed for the City

📚 ABOUT BOOK OUR CLUB: Love a good read? Every other month our Book Club dives into a mix of classic and contemporary Jewish fiction and non-fiction.

Come to share insights and explore how each book connects to Jewish history, values, and tradition. Build community over lively conversation and your lunch.

All are welcome; all you need is curiosity, a book in hand, and lunch.

📗 DECEMBER READ: The Rabbi Who Prayed for the City, by Rab­bi Vivian Green

Rab­bi Vivian Green is prepar­ing to take over as head rab­bi of her syn­a­gogue. She and her wife con­tem­plate tak­ing steps toward hav­ing a child, and her pre­de­ces­sor, Rab­bi Joseph, plans to make aliyah upon retire­ment.

Mean­while, a friend of Vivian’s wife strug­gles with the moral impli­ca­tions of mil­i­tary invest­ment in his work in robot­ics and AI, and a Cat­e­go­ry 4 hur­ri­cane threat­ens the city of Prov­i­dence.

This install­ment in the series cen­ters on a trio of major con­tem­po­rary issues: cli­mate change, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, and the grow­ing ten­sion with­in the Amer­i­can Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty over Israel’s frag­ile democ­ra­cy. Some small dif­fer­ences from real­i­ty, such as a change in hur­ri­cane-nam­ing guide­lines, sug­gest a near-future setting.