Members of the Scribe

When a former ultra-Orthodox Jew publicly reveals her story, she often faces ferocious attacks from her community of origin who will ...

I don’t speak Hebrew and, despite a few semi-earnest attempts to learn my aleph-bet, I don’t read it either. I recognize enough ...

There were two models for motherhood in my sprawling family: my great-great-aunt Riva and my great-grandmother Clara.My great-great-aunt Riva was ...

I look for locations for my stories on CyberRentals and HomeAway. I find the houses described on these websites far ...

Some of the literary works I deal with in Unclean Lips are relatively well-known—Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep (1935) and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), for ...

Stephen Dixon is, in my opinion, the best and most overlooked American Jewish fiction writer in the country. If I ...

There’s a little experiment I’d like to try, knowing that this blog post will be published by the Jewish Book ...

It’s a completely reasonable question, though generally people have been asking it a little shyly: “Why did you want to ...

A sixteen-year-old boy, driving drunk, killed four people. His attorneys cited “affluenza” as the cause of his recklessness and recommended treatment, not confinement. Affluenza is ...

Until I moved to India, I’d never viewed being Jewish as something unusual. I grew up in an upper middle ...