Abby Sher

Abby is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Her memoir, Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying got a nod from Oprah and won ELLE Readers' Prize, Chicago Tribune's Best of 2009, and <a href=http://www.jodymatthews.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/moment-amen.jpg> Moment Magazine's Emerging Writers Award</a>. She's written for The New York Times, The L.A. Times, Self, Jane, Elle, and Heeb.


Articles by Abby Sher

Finding a Religious Home

Flashback: It’s Yom Kippur, my favorite holiday. This year I let myself have some coffee. Maybe I shouldn’t admit that, ...

Hillel House, University of Chicago

In her last post, Abby Sher, author of Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Praying (Among ...

The Shuls, They Are A’Changin’

Abby Sher, author of Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Praying (among Other Things), is blogging ...