Members of the Scribe

Hey, I have a question for you: How important is it for you to identify as a Jew? As a ...

In New York City, in our Upper West Side apartment, my little brother and I watched my father act out ...

It seems to me that it’s hard for a feeling, empathetic person to know where to place himself in the ...

Quite recently, someone asked me about my “process.” This someone wasn’t asking about the creative parts—the meandering through the dark, ...

I needed something. Everyone was dying. Or at least a lot of people were dying and it felt like everyone ...

I am bored to death, dying of starvation and on the brink of losing my mind at Passover dinner at my father’s ...

Of all the representatives of the religious parties in Israel’s Knesset, none have been more powerful or outspoken than Moshe Gafni, ...

Some academics have observed that young Jewish writers do not mine their personal lives for material in the same way ...

No American Jew could have experienced a more inspiring introduction to Israel that I did upon arriving in darkness aboard ...

Remember Mandy Patinkin’s character Inigo Montoya in  The Princess Bride ? When Montoya was a child, the story goes, the six-fingered ...

For many years the political power of Israel’s Orthodox minority spread as if it would never reach a limit. While ...

Many people have asked why I included a biblical map in  The Bronfman Haggadah . Well, for starters, I love ...