Rochelle on Streisand and Stories - Jewish Book Council

As a Jew­ish girl raised in Mia­mi in the 1970s and 1980s, I was shut­tled around in my mom’s Buick Estate sta­tion wag­on while Neil Dia­mond and Simon & Gar­funkel crooned over the radio. Lat­er, when she tucked me into bed, it was Bar­bara Streisand play­ing from the 8?track stereo down the hall. And when the tape came to an end, I reached for my flash­light and hid beneath the cov­ers with my friends Judy Blume and Sid­ney Sheldon.

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