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Do you feel weird interviewing yourself? Um, not really.

Talking w/ Arts Desk about my Jewish upbringing, women in the faith, and learning to forgive.

Dara Torres. Dara Torres. God, it would be so easy to hate her. Let’s start with the abs that defy nature...

I was a grown woman when I outmeaned the meanest girl in my elementary school, a cheerleader with brilliant blue eyes and slightly bucked teeth...

Instead of focusing on dieting before my daughter’s bat mitzvah, I decided to get in shape emotionally.

For my sister-in-law, this intersection is about more than walk and don’t walk.

I have a bad case of book club envy. None of my dozen or so ex-book clubs exist any longer.

On Cooking, Rosh Hashanah, and Inhabiting a Fictive World.

It began with a glance. I was walking out of Barnes & Noble on a warm May afternoon when I spotted him, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, or, shall I say, his four-disc audio book...

I’m knee-deep into what promises to be a fifty-plus gig book tour...

Each Yom Kippur our rabbi invites a few congregants to write a prayer leading up to the Yizkor Memorial service.

“You’re going to talk about hair? For two hours?” my mother said after I told her I’d been invited to co-facilitate a Lilith Salon...

My family is hitting the b’nai mitzvah circuit hard these days.

My mother died four days into 2021. Zoom burial, Zoom shiva, and now, Zoom kaddish...