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

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

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

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.