“The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my f...” — Anita Diament Quote

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

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

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you.

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

Why do so many today want to wander off to South Africa or Kenya or India or Russia or Honduras or Costa Rica or Peru to help with justice issues but not spend the same effort in their own neighborhood or community or state? Why do young suburbanites, say in Chicago, want to go to Kentucky or Tennessee to help people but not want to spend that same time to go to the inner city in their own area to help with justice issues? I asked this question to a mature student in my office one day, and he thought he had a partial explanation: 'Because my generation is searching for experiences, and the more exotic and extreme the better. Going down the street to help at a food shelter is good and it is just and some of us are doing that, but it's not an experience. We want experiences.