Shabbat on Tap: Sex and the Text

Acclaimed city writers Susan Shapiro and Amy Sohn will join Rabbi Dan for a discussion about sex, relationships, obsessions and Torah on Friday, November 20 at 7 pm at Honey, located at 243 West 14th Street (b/w 7-8th Aves).

“Having intimate relations on Shabbat counts as a double mitzvah, according to Jewish law,” said Rabbi Dan. “Together with writers Susan Shapiro and Amy Sohn, two chroniclers of the sex lives of New Yorkers, we’ll explore how this actually plays itself out in the city.”

The event, which is open to the public, is part of Shabbat on Tap, a new Shabbat-in-a-Bar series for New Yorkers that tackles big questions over cold beer.

About the Writers

Susan Shapiro is co-editor of Food for the Soul and author of the nonfiction books Only as Good as Your Word, Lighting Up, Secrets of a Fix-Up Fanatic, and Five Men Who Broke My Heart, which was optioned for a feature film. She written for The New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Newsweek, Salon.com, Daily Beast, The Forward, Village Voice, People, More, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. She recently sold two novels, Overexposed and Speed Shrinking. Sue lives with her husband, a TV/film writer, in Greenwich Village, where she teaches her own "instant gratification takes too long" writing method at the New School, NYU and in private workshops and seminars.

Amy Sohn is the author of the new novel Prospect Park West (Simon & Schuster) as well as Run Catch Kiss and My Old Man. For six years she was a contributing editor at New York magazine, where she wrote the columns “Naked City,” “Mating,” and “Breeding.” She has also been a columnist at the New York Post and England’s Grazia magazine. Amy authored the two tie-in books to the hit TV show, Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell and Sex and the City: The Movie, both New York Times bestsellers. Her initiation into the Manhattan media world was her “Female Trouble” column in New York Press, a dating chronicle that elicited loads of invective from readers and shamed her parents at cocktail parties. She has also written for Harper's Bazaar, Playboy, The Nation and The New York Times. She co-created, wrote, and starred in the Oxygen series "Avenue Amy." She has written television pilots for ABC, Fox, Lifetime and HBO. Amy is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Brown University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

You may also want to check out our Rebbe's Table happening on Sunday, November 22nd at City Winery (155 Varick Street) .