In The Judgment of Yoyo Gold, Isaac Blum offers readers an authentic, frank, and deeply human portrait of adolescence. Through Yoyo’s sensitive and courageous journey, the novel captures the real and raw experience of being a teenager. For Jewish teens and families, especially those who are not Orthodox, the book is both a window and a mirror. For all readers, it is a reminder that part of growing up is learning how to decide which values truly matter, and how to live them with integrity.
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Thanks to this brilliant work by Rabbi Gavriel Goldfeder, I have new language to help me focus my mind and my energy and my intention when I get off-track, even just a little, distracted by rivers of wine and giants, in my quest to find the princess. I even put a quick drawing of an apple on a post-it and affixed it to my computer screen.
This is not a story of a damsel in distress. It is not a love story. It doesn’t have a happy ending. It doesn’t have a tragic ending, either. Looked at a little sideways, it might not have an ending at all.
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