Tova Mirvis

“There are few aspects of my family not imbued with Jewishness; it is braided through every memory, part of nearly every conversation…

— Tova Mirvis

“Be good, said this teacher. be good, the community said. Be good, my name reminded me. But could the inside of your…

— Tova Mirvis

“Naomi remembered all the times she had decided to daven because she saw someone else with an open siddur, when she had…

— Tova Mirvis

“If there was any sliver of meaning, any sense of God's presence, it lay in the feeling of being away from the…

— Tova Mirvis

“I wanted to be moved but it was a performance I'd seen too many times. Here is the part of the service…

— Tova Mirvis

“I tried to pray, but my mind kept wandering. Under all these brims and bows, what were people really thinking? There were…

— Tova Mirvis

“As my daughter nursed, I ran my hands over her tiny legs and silken cheeks, marveling at the mystery of such a…

— Tova Mirvis

“She remembered a story she had once heard: a woman had gossiped about her neighbors and later regretted what she said. She…

— Tova Mirvis

“When we were teenagers, we would imagine that when we had daughters of our own, we wouldn't be so strict. We would…

— Tova Mirvis

“People bustled around me, in a Manhattan hurry, but I stopped walking. I stared at my reflection. It was hard not to…

— Tova Mirvis

“If someone like Batsheva wanted to be Orthodox, there was surely something to it. Not that she doubted it (or at least…

— Tova Mirvis