Native New Yorker Laurance Wieder had his adult bar mitzvah in Charlottesville at age 65. An independent scholar, editor and teacher, his many books include Words to God’s Music: A New Book of Psalms; Perek Shirah: A Chapter of Song; and the just completed oral text After Adam: The Books of Moses.
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