The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.