After the service, I was approached by relatives, friends, and congregation members wishing me mazel tov and telling me what a great job I had done. So poised! So insightful! So well-spoken! But here’s the thing—I wasn’t. 

And then, he jumps in, “What about Harvey Weinstein? What do you think about Harvey Weinstein.”

Your name is who you are and that no one else can have your name until you die–this precept seems profoundly linked to what it means to be Jewish. 

Why go this extra mile in support of patients? Because I’m not only pro-choice, but I am pro-abortion and pro-access. That means going beyond supporting someone’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy but fighting to remove the barriers that may prevent them from doing so.

A novel with three main protagonists and three different time periods is not so uncommon.  But when that book is written by three different authors, that’s pretty unusual.