Michael Lesher is an author, poet, and lawyer whose legal work is mostly dedicated to issues connected with domestic abuse and child sexual abuse. A memoir of his discovery of Orthodox Judaism as an adult, “Turning Back: The Personal Journey of a ‘Born-Again’ Jew,” was published in September 2020 by Lincoln Square Books. He has also published op-ed pieces in such varied venues as Forward, ZNet, the New York Post, and Off-Guardian.