Rabbi Arthur Gross Schaefer

Stop by for refreshments and an intriguing evening with local Rabbi Arthur Gross Schaefer, as he signs The Rabbi Wore a Fedora, his second mystery featuring Rabbi Daniels.

Rabbi Elijah Daniels experiences more than a little anxiety when he agrees to tour Germany. His good friend, Pastor Dan Winter, assures him it will be a good experience and the Evangelical students he would accompany would benefit from a rabbi’s perspective as they tour the country. The rabbi nonetheless worries about how he will respond to the nation that massacred more than six million Jews during World War II.

After his arrival, though, he encounters more challenges than he bargained for. He becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a cleaning woman who lives in the institute where he is staying. Follow Rabbi Daniels as he searches for clues to the killer or killers, all the while tailed by a very suspicious kommissar.

Arthur Gross Schaefer wears many hats as rabbi, educator, and as a former practicing lawyer and CPA. He is a professor and a department chair of business law and marketing at Loyola Marymount University. Rabbi Arthur, as he is called by his congregation, leads the spiritually based Community Shul of Montecito and Santa Barbara.

He is also the chairman of the board for the Avi Schaefer Fund, named after his deceased son Avi and devoted to changing the campus climate around the Israeli-Palestinian debate on college campuses.