Members of the Scribe

A Ghetto in the Middle of a City

Central Park, in the middle of the city of New York, is 843 acres. The Warsaw Ghetto, in the middle ...

Finding a Story to Tell

I did not mean to fall in love with the Bintel Brief letters. I grew up Jewish in the New York suburbs ...

In My Characters’ Shoes

One September afternoon I took the train from Berlin to Warsaw, as my characters had done. I wanted to see ...

The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief

In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the  Forward , to complain that her watch ...

The Things I Miss About Israel

I made aliyah in 1999 at the age of 25 and lived in Jerusalem for a year, and then for two years ...

Make Passover Cooking a Family Affair

Following the release of my newest cookbook,  Let My Children Cook! A Passover Cookbook for Kids , people often ask ...

A Glimpse into the English Charedi School System

The school was on a residential street in North West London. From the outside it was unremarkable, but the atmosphere ...

Recipe: Moroccan-Style Gefilte Fish For Passover

I recently presented a cooking demo based on my new Passover kids’ cookbook  Let My Children Cook , in Jerusalem. ...

The Journey Back

Little did I know what I was getting myself into when one day I decided to delve back into my ...

International Transgender Day of Visibility: A Jewish Perspective

For a while, just as Transgender Day of Remembrance was getting established as an observance, a competing movement emerged. That ...