Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Hidden Chapter of a Lost Rebbe’s Journey

to Redemption

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In 1970s Los Angeles, an unassuming elderly psychology student named George T. Nagel volunteered at a halfway house for psychiatric outpatients. No one knew that George was once Rabbi Yechezkel Taub—the revered Yabloner Rebbe of Poland and the pioneering founder of Kfar Hasidim in pre-state Israel. After decades of spiritual exile and anonymity, he quietly rediscovered purpose through small acts of kindness, captured in a remarkable series of letters that are now, for the first time, being published. Paradise Cove is a tender, humorous, and deeply human memoir of healing, hope, and second chances.

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"Even after failure and shame, a person can find light again—not in grandeur,

but in simple goodness."