A promi­nent film crit­ic and out­spo­ken voice in the Hol­ly­wood com­mu­ni­ty, Adams returns to the JBC with Bit­ter­sweet Brook­lyn. her sec­ond female-dri­ven his­tor­i­cal nov­el about the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence fol­low­ing the best­selling The Last Woman Stand­ing. The for­mer in-house crit­ic for The NY Post and Us Week­ly has also writ­ten for the New York Times, O: The Oprah Mag­a­zine, and AARP.