Amy’s award-winning columns and stories are featured in newspapers and magazines across the United States. To see where Amy’s work appears, click here.

Amy’s literary award-winning story “Cellular Love” was published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Like Mother, Like Daughter.

Amy’s Rockower-award winning story “Five Gold Bangles and a World of Difference” was published in Jewish Stories from Heaven and Earth: Inspiring Tales to Nourish the Heart and Soul.

Amy won the 2008 Arizona Newspaper Association Award for Best Column for her story “Embracing Change: Welcoming Transformations in my Family and my Faith”.

Amy won the 2008 Arizona Press Award for Best Journalism for her opinion piece “Still Searching for Peace on Mt. Zion”.

Enjoy a few more of Amy’s Stories:

• My Grandmother’s Candlesticks
• Loving Our Children: Separately But Equally
• Discovering a “JEM” In an Arizona Cave
• Volunteering: You Get More Than You Give
• Jewish Philanthropy: Why Should I Give
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex

Learn how Amy’s stories have touched others:

• Human Dignity at Core of Reform Judaism’s Position on Homosexuality
• Everyone Needs a Little Chicken Soup, by Barbara Russek

Opinion/editorial pieces by Amy:

• Timeless Poem Lends Hope As Israel Turns 60
• A Survivor’s Story
• Pearl an American Icon That’s Worth Fighting For
• Knowledge Is Power, but Is It Worth Spying For?
• Getting Ready for War: Reach Out, Don’t Withdraw
• From Ashes Comes Hope
• Real America

Stories by and about Amy are archived in her Reflections Column in the Arizona Jewish Post (http://azjewishpost.com/category/columns/reflections/) and at JewishTucson.org.

Amy has also presented sermons at synagogues. To read a copy of Amy’s Yom Kippuer 2007 sermon at Congregation Or Chadash, click here.

For stories written about Amy, visit The Media Room

All writings are copyright © Amy Hirshberg Lederman. Permission for reprinting must come from the author prior to publication. Please contact Amy atalederman@cox.net for reprint rights.