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I imagine many of us can remember exactly where we were when we encountered a favorite book—when we felt our ...

When I first read Chaim Potok’s  The Chosen  I wasn’t yet trying to be a writer myself, and was blissfully ...

I began my first post with a Sarah Silverman joke, so let me start this one with a more traditional example of ...

When you write a novel called  The Book of Jonah , when you base that book on the biblical Book of ...

I once heard Sarah Silverman tell a joke about the pride Jews inevitably take in the accomplishments of other Jews. To paraphrase, ...

It’s amazing how your first broken heart feels like the end of the world. Until your next broken heart which ...

Dating is all about attitude. If you’re in a pissy mood about something totally unrelated to your date, or if ...

At birth I was blessed with not one, not two, but four Jewish names. Tamar Avital is the name my ...

When I was little, I talked to God constantly. There were prayers for waking up, for the morning, for the afternoon, before ...

In 1990, I worked with Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, then the site of the largest refugee population in the ...