“I wanted to be moved but it was a performance I'd seen too many times. Here is the part of the service where you sit. Here you stand. Here you bow. Here you proclaim unwavering belief. I stared into my… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“I tried to pray, but my mind kept wandering. Under all these brims and bows, what were people really thinking? There were few clues, only the fantasies I spun out. Did any of these women ever worry, as I did,… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“There are few aspects of my family not imbued with Jewishness; it is braided through every memory, part of nearly every conversation and every… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“Be good, said this teacher. be good, the community said. Be good, my name reminded me. But could the inside of your mind be… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“Naomi remembered all the times she had decided to daven because she saw someone else with an open siddur, when she had made a… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“If there was any sliver of meaning, any sense of God's presence, it lay in the feeling of being away from the rules, away… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be moved but it was a performance I'd seen too many times. Here is the part of the service where you… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“I tried to pray, but my mind kept wandering. Under all these brims and bows, what were people really thinking? There were few clues,… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“As my daughter nursed, I ran my hands over her tiny legs and silken cheeks, marveling at the mystery of such a small creature,… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“She remembered a story she had once heard: a woman had gossiped about her neighbors and later regretted what she said. She went to… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“When we were teenagers, we would imagine that when we had daughters of our own, we wouldn't be so strict. We would give them… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“People bustled around me, in a Manhattan hurry, but I stopped walking. I stared at my reflection. It was hard not to rip off… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
“If someone like Batsheva wanted to be Orthodox, there was surely something to it. Not that she doubted it (or at least she didn't… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
