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Ripped Away by Shirley Reva Vernick; Fitzroy Books (c) 2022; ISBN 9781646-032037; 132 pages. SAN DIEGO — Here is a short time-travel novel suitable for Young Adults and older readers imagining two high school students who barely acknowledge each other being transported to Whitechapel, London, during the time of the Jack the Ripper murders. Abe and Mitzi, who are both Jewish Americans, find themselves transformed into the 19th Century Asher and Maya, two Jewish teenage neighbors, born to impoverished immigrant families. Both in the 21st Century had made the mistake of visiting a fortune teller,…