The Story of E

My name is E. That's all you're getting.I live in Brooklyn. I have a serious Chassidic study practice and what my friends generously describe as a platinum bed head situation that precedes me into rooms. I am, by most reasonable measures, a lot.I have also been, for the better part of three decades, a lesbian. Or so I thought.At 4:30 in the morning, two cops are at the door. The studio is gone. The insurance won't cover it. And then the Detective walks in - six feet of him. Brooklyn-funny. Not Jewish. None of my business.What follows is a robbery, a rabbi, the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, eight attempts to end something that refused to end, and Hashgacha Pratis - the Chassidic teaching that nothing is random.You cannot make this up. I know. I lived it. - EThe author has come to call it, only half-jokingly, its own new genre: Hot Chassidic.