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

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute