My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
I can't imagine writing something that didn't address Jewish themes and questions. It's such a big part of my life, a lot of the way in which I experience the world.
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.
Judaism is in all my books.
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.
My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.
My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.