Starting with the weak pun of the book’s title this never really goes anywhere. Rabbi David Kahn turns out, at his funeral, not to have been Jewish. It’s a great kicking off point that never real gets developed with any wit or depth. The art is overly simple reflecting the unsophisticated nature of the storytelling. Hardly worth the effort. ( )

Provocative ideas about the sins of the fathers---when the beloved rabbi of an Orthodox (I assume) synagogue dies, his brother shows up announcing that the rabbi was a con artist who faked being Jewish when he fell in love with and married a Jewish woman. His elder son, poised to take over as rabbi, is faced with which of his father's footsteps he wants to follow in. His daughter begins to doubt her doubts and his younger son and wife have their share of problems as well. The book is in the adult section of my local library; it is not written for children. There are some mistakes in the book, but the author may have deliberately included them to show that the rabbi was not as learned as he pretended to be: Still, saying that tefillin contain verses from Psalms is a blatant error. ( )