My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

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

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

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

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

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.