Abomination / Ashley Goldberg.
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TextPublisher: [Sydney, NSW] : Vintage Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 280 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781761041778; 1761041770Subject(s): Orthodox Judaism -- Australia -- Fiction | Jews -- Australia -- Fiction | Best friends -- Fiction | Scandals -- Fiction | Life change events -- Fiction | Atheists -- Fiction | Rabbis -- Fiction | Male friendship -- Fiction | Ex-Orthodox Jews -- Fiction | Secularism -- Fiction | Trials (Child sexual abuse) -- Fiction | Melbourne (Vic.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Psychological fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: 'He who turns his ear away from hearing the Torah, even his prayer is an abomination.' Proverbs 28-9.Melbourne 1999: Ezra and Yonatan are best friends whose lives are forever changed when their school, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Yahel Academy, is rocked by a scandal and they are thrown onto two divergent paths. Twenty years later, the lives of the two men are very different: Ezra identifies as secular and atheist, while Yonatan has been ordained as a rabbi and even teaches at the academy. By chance they are reunited, and the events of their past and present collide with devastating consequences.
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'He who turns his ear away from hearing the Torah, even his prayer is an abomination.' Proverbs 28-9.Melbourne 1999: Ezra and Yonatan are best friends whose lives are forever changed when their school, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Yahel Academy, is rocked by a scandal and they are thrown onto two divergent paths. Twenty years later, the lives of the two men are very different: Ezra identifies as secular and atheist, while Yonatan has been ordained as a rabbi and even teaches at the academy. By chance they are reunited, and the events of their past and present collide with devastating consequences.
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