Ruchoma Shain

About ten years before her death, she returned to the United States to be near her children in Adelphia, New Jersey, where she continued to welcome visitors. She died in 2013 in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.

Her second book, Reaching the Stars (1990), chronicles her experiences as a teacher. She also authored Dearest Children, All for the Best, and Shining Lights.

Shain wrote her first book, All for the Boss, in her late sixties upon the request of Yaakov Feldheim, one of the founders of Feldheim Publishers. Published in 1984, her book about growing up in New York City and the influence of her father became one of the all-time best-sellers for the publishing company, which until then had concentrated on Torah and rabbinic literature. All for the Boss was revised and expanded in 2001, and Feldheim published a "Young Readers Edition" in 2006. Feldheim translated the book into Hebrew in 2002. It was also translated into Yiddish. In 2010 a Ynet reporter called the book "one of the most read, talked about, and widely studied in the Haredi street". Shain went on to write four more books, drawing on her personal and teaching experiences.

Ruchoma Shain (6 December 1914 – 16 March 2013) was an American-born rebbetzin, English teacher, and author. She is best known for her first book, All for the Boss (1984), a biography of her father, Yaakov Yosef Herman, which she wrote in her late sixties. In detailing her father's life, she also describes Orthodox Jewish life in America in the early 1900s. All for the Boss became one of the all-time best-sellers for Feldheim Publishers, and Shain's stories and observations are quoted by numerous authors.