The underlying principle of my second novel, The Secret of Redemption, and of my third novel, A Human Rights Odyssey, is the rejection of the hierarchical vision of society.

In The Secret of Redemption, Rabbi Isaac Levin organizes an interfaith symposium in Cold Spring Harbor.  He and his colleagues examine the systemic inequality which existed throughout American history, from the Puritans to present day oppression of immigrants and hatred of the other.  Over a century ago, Cold Spring Harbor was the Mecca of the international eugenics movement.  The widespread belief in eugenic inferiority lead to mass sterilizations, a mission to limit or eliminate immigrants from undesirable countries which still exists in 2026, and ultimately the Final Solution in Nazi Germany: the discrimination against and murder of six million Jews.  The participants in this seminar vowed to make it their top priority to resist and speak out against the hierarchical vision of society in Northern Manhattan.

This philosophy is echoed in the third novel.  Rabbi Levin experiences a human rights odyssey which takes him from his civil rights' origins in St. Louis to the inner city of Hamilton, Ohio, to a courtroom in Birmingham, England, to the former Soviet Union, to the cities of Winnipeg and Regina where discrimination against aboriginals was widespread, to the Deep South where he co leads a civil rights mission for high school students, and finally to his home high school where he openly discusses his past and beckons the students to work for a better future.  The novel concludes with an interfaith Thanksgiving program, which was far more inclusive than the one he organized in Jackson, Michigan many years ago, and which models the interfaith cooperation of equals and rejects the hierarchical vision of modern society.