Marra B. Gad was born in New York, raised in Chicago and now calls Los Angeles home. She is an independent film and television producer. Ms. Gad’s first book, THE YERUSHA: A Love Story in Black and White, will be a lead title for Agate Publishing in September 2019. Ms. Gad is a proud graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a Masters Degree in Jewish Communal Service from Baltimore Hebrew University.
How the ancient Hanukkah story inspires a modern thinking about race and authenticity.