Als er die Ferien bei seinen Großeltern verbringt, fällt dem zwölfjährigen Finn ein Amulett in die Hand, das seit vielen Generationen im Besitz der Familie ist.
In this daring adventure tale, siblings Rose and Ben search for their missing grandparents, aided only by a lantern, their wits, and a mysterious book of puzzling mystical Jewish stories.
It's Yom Kippur Eve in 1973, and twelve-year-old Beni thinks his biggest problem is settling in at his new school in the Golan, where his family moved at the end of the Six-Day War.
Set in biblical times, the story of Nicanor's Gate-one of the entrances to the Temple in Jerusalem-shows how a man's faith is important to living a happy, fulfilled life.
