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Kohn had written three other novels.
None was accepted for publication.
"Meanwhile, I had a daughter; she
got to be school-aged, and, like a lot
of people, I became more involved
with the synagogue, with Judaism,"
Kohn said. "The next thing I knew, I
was [synagogue] president, standing
in front of 700 people asking for Yom .
Kippur donations."
The Kohns' synagogue is.unaf-
filiated with any specific stream of '
Judaism. The congregation uses a
Conservative prayer book, but the
rabbi was ordained at the Reform
Hebrew Union College/Jewish
Institute of Religion and conducts an
Egalitarian service. •
"Instead of a sermon, we do Bible
study:' she explains. "It was the first
time in my life I began to look at the
Bible as a human drama. I saw a huge
opportunity to make the stories we
had heard since childhood come alive
in a way that would make readers .
come back to them as adults."
At first,- Kohn was concerned the
elaborations and non-biblical plot
devices in her novels might offend
more traditional readers. However, she
hears very few. objections.
"I am very friendly with the Chabad
rebbitzen, and she was fine with my
first book:' she says. "The Orthodox
see it as doing Midrash (commen-
tary on the Bible). I've read a lot of
Midrash in preparation for my books.
Some of that stuff is pretty wild:'
When people do object to her fic-
tion, she says, it's usually because their
ideas of what the stories are about are
based on the simplified versions they
heard as children.
"My answer to people who object is
that I'm trying to bring people back to
the text:' she says. ❑
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