Summary of Eric Francis's Broken Vows

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Sample Book Insights:

#1 Carol Neulander was a successful businesswoman and mother of three who had begun a bakery right out of her home oven. She had expanded it over the course of a decade to the point where it was a full-fledged bakery chain with two growing retail stores in the neighboring New Jersey towns of Audubon and Voorhees.

#2 Fred Neulander, the rabbi of M’kor Shalom synagogue, was a blend of Old World and New World backgrounds. He had grown up in a rough-and-tumble section of Albany, and had been born Carol Toby Lidz, the daughter of a wealthy button manufacturer in New York City’s fabled Garment District.

#3 Neulander’s immigrant parents owned a dry-cleaning business that his father struggled to run while his wife stayed home and cared for Fred, their only child. The Neulanders’ surroundings were humble, but they had a profound love of learning and literature.

#4 The synagogue, led by Rabbi Neulander, grew immensely in the 1990s. It was the eighth synagogue to be established in Cherry Hill, and the largest. Carol, the wife of the senior rabbi, was adored by the congregation.