When We're Born We Forget Everything: A Memoir - Alicia Jo Rabins

ALICIA JO RABINS is a musician, performer and Torah teacher. Rabins holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and an MA in Jewish Women's Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the author of Divinity School (winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize) and Fruit Geode (finalist for the Jewish Book Award) and the collection of personal essays, Even God Had Bad Parenting Days. As a musician, she has released three albums (and accompanying feminist Torah study guides) with Girls in Trouble, her indie-folk song cycle about Biblical women, and she continues to tour internationally with this project. Rabins is the creator and star of A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, an independent feature film about the intersection of finance and mysticism, which the Atlantic calls a blessing.