Naomi PatzNaomi Patz is an author of seven books, including Explaining Reform Judaism, with Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, the Jewish Holiday Treasure Trail (Behrman House), and editor of many books and articles. She has written numerous scripts and parodies, includin an adaptation of The Last Cyclist, a dark comedy written in the Jewish concentration camp at Terezín in 1943 by Karel Svenk. She translated from Hebrew (with her husband) The Third Cry, a fantasy play by Yaakov Cahan, and A Word to the Wise, a setting of three Jewish folktales set to music. She has also written many creative services for the Sabbath and Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, as well as a prayer book and women's haggadah, and has written monographs on the Jewish communities of Dvur Kralove nad Labem and Jihlava in the Czech Republic. She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds masters degrees in English Literature (Old Dominion University) and Jewish education (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion), which awarded her an honorary doctorate. Her husband Norman was ordained as a rabbi in 1965 by HUC-JIR in New York. They have two daughters, Debby and Aviva, and four granddaughters - Natasha, India, Sadie and Dahlia. They are the joy of their lives. Read More Read Less