2013

When I started looking through the extensive and awe-inspiring Visiting Scribe archives, one theme kept popping out at me: the perennial ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...

A week filled with senseless public events is a good week to look for meaning.Rabbi Rachel Barenblat found meaning in ...

In 2011, I was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Thanks to this honor, I was invited ...

Rebecca Leibowitz works at the Foundation for Jewish Camp.It is my first summer at camp. I am 5 inches taller, ...

According to Jewish Law it is the practice to refrain from getting married between Passover and Shavuot – until Lag B’Omer ...

[Editor’s Note: This post is not our typical “Southern & Jewish” fare; one of our contributors, Rabbi Marshal Klaven, wanted ...

As a native New Yorker and a die-hard Yankees fan, the year I lived in Boston was not always an ...

So why would a nice Jewish girl not write nice Jewish fiction? My last book,  Stations West , was about ...

I’ve never been one to have high expectations. I tend to take situations as they come and to be spontaneous ...