Members of the Scribe

Hearing the Women’s Songs—in Torah and in “The Big Sleep”

Although I live in California, I don’t share the New Age belief that there are no coincidences. I think many ...

I thought I had entered completely into the world of my novel: Boyle Heights in the 1920s and 30s, when ...

I always begin like this, with Irv, my grandfather, and then I describe him, An angel on Earth, never another like him. ...

In my blog posts this week I have written about the Kodachrome slides that Bill Manbo took while imprisoned with ...

The question that I am exploring in this series of blog posts is what a “concentration camp” looks like. In ...

My new book Colors of Confinement presents dozens of stunning Kodachrome photographs of everyday life inside the barbed wire confines ...

Carol Conroy was browsing the poetry section when my parents Sigmund and Frances walked in. They were visiting with me ...

I know Jewish doctors and lawyers who are sending their children to state universities and tell me they are ‘great’ ...

My parents left the United States in 1973 to retire in Bat Yam, Israel, the country in which they met ...

We grew up with my mother’s special brand of religion: Eccentric Judaism. My two older brothers and I were allowed ...