Abigail and robin pogrebin biography

American journalist

Abigail Pogrebin (born May 17, 1965) is an American writer, journalist, podcast host^[1] for Tablet magazine, and former Director of Jewish Outreach for the Michael Bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign.^[2]

Family and early life

Pogrebin was born in New York to a Jewish family, the daughter of an author and feminist activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin, the co-founder of Ms. magazine, and Bert Pogrebin, a management-side labor lawyer, and is the identical twin sister of New York Times journalist Robin Pogrebin.^{[citation needed]} At 16, she was the youngest member of the original Broadway cast of Hal Prince’s production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along, which closed in November 1981 after 44 previews and only 16 performances.^[3] She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University.^[4][5]

Pogrebin married David Shapiro in 1993, and they have two children.^&