The Choosing by Andrea Myers

A Lutheran girl from Long Island aspires to be a doctor and seems headed for a conventional marriage, but life has other plans. Andrea Myers tells of her coming of age at Brandeis, coming out as a lesbian, discovering Judaism, moving to Israel, converting, and returning to New York to become a rabbi, partner and parent. Arranged around the cycle of the Jewish year, with stories tied to each holiday, the memoir mixes humor and rabbinic insight, from a Sicilian grandmother baking hamantaschen for Purim to an American in Jerusalem saving a chicken from a Rosh Hashanah ritual.