NEWTON — This year marks the 10th anniversary of Mayyim Hay-yim, the ritual bath founded in Newton by the novelist Anita Diamant. She raised the backing for the traditional mikveh in the wake of the ...

Brooklyn-born author Anita Diamant is known for penning best-selling novels including “The Red Tent” and “The Boston Girl,” but she began her career writing nonfiction guidebooks on aspects of ...

Anita Diamant, author and community leader, is honored with 2019 Bernard Reisman Professional Excellence Award. The Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University is pleased ...

December is a big month for Anita Diamant. One week from today, Lifetime debuts its miniseries adapted from "The Red Tent," Diamant's 1997 bestselling novel and a perennial book-club favorite. On Dec.

While writing "Good Harbor," about the midlife friendship between two Jewish women, Anita Diamant says she suffered a bout of "second-novelitis." Her 1997 debut novel, "The Red Tent" — a sexy spin on ...

From the opening of Anita Diamant’s heartwarming novel, “The Boston Girl,” (Scribner), when Addie Bauman, an 85-year-old grandmother recounts her life story to her granddaughter, I was struck by the ...

Anita Diamant had written about periods before — the title of her beloved novel, “The Red Tent,” referred to the place where women were sequestered by a society that demanded their removal during ...

“The Red Tent,” a best-selling novel by Anita Diamant, is being made into a four-hour miniseries by the Lifetime network. The miniseries, based on a book that explores the lives of women in ancient ...

The experience of immigrants in America, with their trials-by-fire of adaptation and adjustment, has inspired hundreds of remarkable books, from the stories in Ana Menendez’s beautiful In Cuba I was a ...

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Anita Diamant's new novel,"The Boston Girl," comes to us as the transcript of a tape-recorded monologue delivered by an 85-year-old woman named Addie Baum. Addie is cheery, alert and full of ...

I came to “The Boston Girl,” Anita Diamant’s fifth novel, aware only that Diamant is warmly admired, perhaps above all for her best-selling first novel, “The Red Tent” (a Bible-derived story, later ...