Rabbi-Cantor Jeff Reimer returns to River City, Iowa after forty-six years, as spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom. As Jeff connects with the congregation on a variety of issues, he also connects with his past. It leads him to reminisce about the year of his Bar Mitzvah, and the pivotal events and personal relationships that have led him back to River City again, and that makes Jeff the man he has become. This is a humorous coming-of-age story set in the turbulent 1960's where Jeff fights off the stigma of being a clergyman's son, contends with Junior High shop classes, stumbles through B'nai Mitzvah party dances and a semi-reluctant romance with April Blackman.