Members of the Scribe

Keeping Doubt Alive

Like most people, I used to view doubt and faith as occupying two opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum. In my ...

Free Jewish-Books Summer Camp!

When I was a kid, I got sent to a sports camp outside of Philadelphia. Which was sort of the ...

The Perils and Pleasures of Spiritual Travel

I’ve written a book about my “spiritual journey,” fully aware what an oft abused, dangerously clichéd term it is. The ...

On Carrots and Fishes and Jewish Souls

I spent several years traveling the world, trying on different faiths, seeing which one fits. At the end of my ...

The Red Devil

In December, not long after Among Righteous Men was published, I returned to Crown Heights. The evening was unseasonably warm, and ...

A House Divided

In my last blog post, I wrote about the genesis of my book,  Among Righteous Men , and the emotional connection ...

Returning to Crown Heights

Matthew Shaer is the author of Among Righteous Men: A Tale of Vigilantes and Vindication in Hasidic Crown Heights. He ...

My Influences Are Showing

I keep a collection in my head of the names of stories, movies, pictures that seem perfect to me. They ...

The Wedding Guest

Liana Finck is adapting old Yiddish press self-help columns into a book. This week, she’s letting us peek behind the ...

A Bintel Brief: A Bundle of Letters

This is the first page of a comic book I’m working on. It’s based on the Bintel Brief, a popular Yiddish ...