Jane Barowitz is a fourth generation New Yorker and has generated a fifth and sixth generation of city-ites. She usually writes about children and families, particularly around foster care and adoption. Her work has appeared in Working Mother magazine, and Art and Artists, of which she was an editor. As Vice President for Communications at a large social services organization, she developed promotional materials, raised funds, managed crises and wrote hundreds of thousands of uplifting words.

She is active in her lower Manhattan community and is a Board member of Footsteps, an organization helping young men and women from insular orthodox communities who choose to join a more secular world.

She spends summers on a Maine Island, a mere five-hour drive from Lower Manhattan.

Blog Entries by Jane Barowitz

The Sisterhood of Women with Big Feet

Posted June 11, 2009 | 02:22 PM (EST)


At Barney's shoe sale the best selection is in size 5 or 10. I read it on the front page of Thursday's Style section of the Times. This was the first time I had ever heard of an advantage to wearing a size 10. I have a long, sad...

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My Taliban Fruit Man

8 Comments | Posted May 26, 2009 | 12:23 PM (EST)


I eat a lot of fruit.

When I worked in a building at the very bottom of Wall Street I passed four or five fruit vendors on my morning walk from the subway to my office. Two Asian guys a block apart, but on the wrong side...

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