Mitchell Chefitz: 5 books

Blood Covenant is a mystical thriller, pitting an unlikely team of four against a conspiracy so dark you will be astonished as it comes to light. A Congressman’s young granddaughter has been ritually murdered, bled out, a Hebrew letter carved into her forehead. Gideon Schwartz, a family friend and...

Allison, blocked from realizing her stories, visits her mentor Reuben, who takes her to his synagogue, opens a Torah scroll, and begins to read not from the Hebrew letters, but from the white space. "The Torah is written in letters of black fire on a background of white fire," he says. Within...

"The Curse of Blessings" is ten jewel-like tales nestled in a larger framework, wherein an aged storyteller passes on his craft to four unlikely apprentices. It is a gift that will leave them transformed - or not - depending on what they allow themselves to hear. These are tales of utter simplicity...

The Thirty-third Hour opens at midnight Saturday, in the study of Rabbi Arthur Greenberg, the leader of the largest synagogue in Miami. The Rabbi has until 9 a.m. Monday morning, thirty-three hours, to investigate a sex ethics charge brought against one of his colleagues by a member of the congregation,...

The Seventh Telling is a journey into the Kabbalah, a spiritual discipline hidden within the folds of Jewish history. Stephanie and Sidney have been studying with Moshe Katan, a kabbalist who shared his learning only when he perceived that a kabbalistic intervention might be necessary to save the...