This anthol­o­gy of per­son­al sto­ries by 52 peo­ple allows read­ers to expe­ri­ence Judaism from many dif­fer­ent points of view. Debra B. Dar­vick, a jour­nal­ist, has com­piled the sto­ries and orga­nized them into groups relat­ing to Jew­ish hol­i­days or life-cycle events. They range from an account of her son’s b’rit milah to the sto­ry of a gay couple’s com­mit­ment cer­e­mo­ny, to that of a young man study­ing in Israel who is attacked by hared­im for pray­ing in an egal­i­tar­i­an Shavuot ser­vice at the kotel. Dar­vick intro­duces each sec­tion with an expla­na­tion of the rel­e­vant hol­i­day or life-cycle occa­sion. Read­ers will find some­thing inspi­ra­tional here as they peruse the account of a young man’s Bar Mitz­vah that takes place the day after his syn­a­gogue was destroyed by a fire bomb or that of a Sim­chat Torah cel­e­bra­tion for Amer­i­can sol­diers in Sau­di Ara­bia. The sto­ries are also good teach­ing tools because they encour­age dis­cus­sion of the mean­ing of Jew­ish tra­di­tions and the sig­nif­i­cance of being a Jew. It is a good addi­tion to school and syn­a­gogue libraries.