Abigail Pogrebin

ABIGAIL POGREBIN is the co-author of the 2025 Independent Press Award winner It Takes Two To Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and A Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way through the Five Books of Moses  with Rabbi Dov Linzer.   She is also the author of  My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays; One Wondering Jew – a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Awards and still included in synagogue community reads 8 years after publication. Her first book Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish, for which she interviewed 60 major public figures — from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Steven Spielberg – went into eight hardcover printings and was later adapted for the Off-Broadway stage. Abby was an Emmy-nominated broadcast producer for CBS News’ 60 Minutes, and before that at PBS for Fred W. Friendly, Charlie Rose and Bill Moyers. She has written for the New York Times, Atlantic Magazine, Newsweek, Tablet, the Forward, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar. She has moderated public conversations with Hillary Clinton, Lynne Cheney, Madeleine Albright, Bret Stephens, Tom Friedman, Julianna Margulies, Dan Senor, Mayim Bialik, Yossi Klein Halevi, and scores of others at The Streicker Center, the JCC in Manhattan and for JBS Television.  Abby is a past president of Central Synagogue in Manhattan and a board member of The Shalom Hartman Institute.  Abby received The Impact Award from The Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan in June 2019, was honored by The Jewish Week in 2017 for contributions to Jewish communal life, and was asked to deliver the plenary address at Hillel International Conference in 2014.