The Last Tale of Mendel ABBE : Sonny Bush and the Wise Men of New Chelm

Awakening near Newark, Mendel is incredulous to see the absence in the New York skyline, the clouds of smoke billowing from where the twin towers once stood. His shock becomes more traumatizing when he experiences TV and the government turning the tragic events into a circus of bizarre and misplaced chauvinist rhetoric about the heroism and victimization of the United States in modern history. Driven by angst, and his own nature, Mendel embarks upon a tale taller than the towers to recuperate the sad state of history. For his project he chooses to resurrect a group of foppishly naive characters from a little known Jewish shtetl in 19th century Poland, people invented by an earlier New Yorker, Solomon Simon, for the amusement of Jewish children. The name of the place: Chelm; of the people: the Wise Men of. And they are coming to the U.S. to help Sonny Bush fix everything. You'll see.