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JNS.org – Superman was created by two Jews (writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster), and the latest buzz about the upcoming “Batman vs. Superman” movie concerns the selection of Israeli actress Gal Gadot to play Wonder Woman. But today’s Jewish children have a more religiously relevant caped crusader to look up to.

Rabbi Susan Abramson, one of the first 50 women to ever be ordained as a rabbi and currently the longest-serving female rabbi in the state of Massachusetts, is the creator of a line of children’s books featuring the heroine named “Rabbi Rocketpower.” Sporting a motto that points out how “one good deed leads to another”—a phrase that comes from “Pirkei Avot” (Ethics of the Fathers)—and shouting “Oy vay! Up, up and away!” whenever she takes off, Rabbi Rocketpower promotes patience, perseverance, and dedication to one’s cause and one’s fellow men and women.

Faster than a speeding matzoh ball and more powerful than yourbubbe‘s chicken soup, Rabbi Rocketpower brings peace wherever she goes and educates, especially when it comes to the Jewish holidays.

“There are no bad guys in Rabbi Rocketpower,” Abramson tellsJNS.org. “Just misguided aliens who innocently disrupt the Jewish holiday without understanding what it’s about.”

The children’s book series includes “Rabbi Rocketpower and the Half-Baked Matzah Mystery – A Particularly Peculiar Passover”; “Rabbi Rocketpower in the Mystery of the Missing Menorahs – A Hanukkah Humdinger”; “Rabbi Rocketpower in a Tooty Fruity Tale for Tu Bishvat – A Juicy Mystery”; and “Rabbi Rocketpower in Who Hogged the Hallah? A Shabbat Shabang.” The next book, coming out in the spring of 2014, will be “Torah With A Twist – A Challachic Guide,” which is based on “Who Hogged the Hallah” and will provide a synopsis and analysis of each weekly Torah portion. A portion of proceeds from “Rabbi Rocketpower” book sales goes to supporting the fulfilling of mitzvot around the world.

Abramson—the pulpit rabbi at Temple Shalom Emeth of Burlington, Mass., since 1984—was inspired to create Rabbi Rocketpower when she surveyed the contemporary comic and kid literature world.

“It would always bother me that there is so much death and sadness in children’s literature in general,” Abramson says. “Nothing sad happens in my books.”