PRAISE FOR MINYAN:

“Who knew he could write like that? My son is a genius.”

--Mrs. Sobel,
author's mother

One of my favorite jokes:Two wise old rabbis are walking on the beach, contemplating life in companionable silence. Finally one rabbi says to the other, “I’ve been thinking…”“And what is it you’ve been thinking?”“I’ve been thinking that the very best thing… is never to have been born at all.”
They walk a bit farther. The other rabbi finally replies, “Yes. But who has such luck? Not one in ten thousand.”

If you think this joke is funny, read this book. If you don’t think this joke is funny, read this book. It is funny and sad and funny, but not so... existentially enigmatic... there is a taste of bitter herbs along with the sponge cake. And then a final vision - not so much one of happiness as of grace.”

--John Casey,
author of Spartina

“…a delightful tale of a community of Jewish men trying to find meaning and love in contemporary society....There are passages here so inventive, so lyrical, so downright funny, that readers will share them, going to get the book to read out loud....
This novel is not for a Jewish audience only. One learns things in any good novel, and among the things one learns in MINYAN are many things Jewish but, more importantly, one learns many things human.... MINYAN is one of those novels that makes its own, quirky way, extending the range of the boundary of the novel. Good readers will recognize here things they have never seen before.”

--Alan Wier.
author of Tehano