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Ever since I was a young girl, I have enjoyed stories.
I wrote myths and fairy tales in elementary school. For a long time, I thought that I might be a journalist.
But, my love for Judaism and its sacred stories led me to become a rabbi. Stories that I created for the
classroom or pulpit became books that I was lucky enough to have published.
When I am not writing Jewish children's books and Jewish teen
novels, I am the Rabbi for Lifelong Education at Temple Emanuel in Cherry Hill, NJ. I was ordained
in 1997 from Hebrew Union College in New York City. I have worked at Jewish camps, led more Jewish retreat weekends
than I can count, and enjoy teaching pre-schoolers, senior adults and everybody in between.
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I grew up in Columbia, MD, and graduated
the University of Michigan (Go Blue! – note the Maize and Blue on this page). I am married to David Cohen – an
editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer. We are joyfully raising two children Arianna Shira, who was born in 2001,
and Jesse Benjamin, who was born in 2008.
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