From preschoolers to teenagers to baby boomers, throngs of Sheldon Low’s fans rock out to his original compositions and his contemporary interpretations of Jewish songs. The 30-year-old St. Louis native spoke with the Exponent by telephone from his home in Manhattan.

Phyllis Cohen Deitch has written Too Soon to Say ‘Goodbye,’ which offers stories of more than 100 adults who have lost one or both parents, whether during childhood, adolescence or young adulthood.,