Abigail Pogrebin

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American author of the books, My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew (2017), One and the Same: My Life As an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular (2009) and Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish (2005). As a teenager, Pogrebin worked as an actor and performer, and at age 16 starred as Evelyn in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along. Her bestselling Amazon Kindle Single, Showstopper, recounts her teenage adventure in Sondheim’s flop, Merrily We Roll Along. Formerly a producer for Charlie Rose at PBS and Mike Wallace at 60 Minutes, she moderates her own interview series at the JCC in Manhattan and has been President of Central Synagogue from 2015 to present (her tenure ends in 2018). She is a daughter of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, the co-founder of Ms. Magazine, and Bert Pogrebin, a management-side labor lawyer, and is the identical twin sister of New York Times journalist Robin Pogrebin. Link to Wikipedia biography