Members of the Scribe
A Word on Who I Am
A few months ago I finished Pete Townshend’s autobiography, Who I Am . I can’t say I was surprised to ...
Not All Autobiographical Elements Are Created Equal
I get this question all the time: How autobiographical is your novel?The book’s style, setting, and protagonist invite the question: ...
My Biggest Love
My third book was published this week. Needless to say, I’m somewhere between panic and excitement. It’s the first one in English ...
Only in Israel
Here’s something that just happened to me. I was walking with an American friend in the picturesque quarter of Neve-Tsedek ...
Consumer Vigilance and the Kosher Cookies-and-Cream Ice Cream Caper
Kosher food certification has come a long way in the past one hundred years (see my earlier posts on the Baff ...
A Lonely Golem
I was trying to figure out how to get people to buy My First Kafka from me directly instead of, ...
Scandal and Self-Correction in Kosher Food Certification
This past March, the owner of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market, Los Angeles’s largest purveyor of kosher meat, was discovered smuggling repackaged ...
Why Kids Love Scary Stories
My parents are getting ready to move, to abandon the house I’ve lived in since I was born, and we ...
Organized Crime and Kosher Food Certification
The Toronto Star recently reported that several firebombings of kosher restaurants in Quebec may not be the work of anti-Semites ...
Younger Than That Now
Memorial Day, 2007. I’ve drifted away from a Santa Monica beach party to gaze out at the Pacific Ocean, plus my ...