characters
What Would Judah Do?
The father of philosopher Isaac Abravanel and grandfather of Judah the Lion (arguably the most famous member of this illustrious family) was ...
What Does a Kabbalist Eat for Breakfast?
Once upon a time, a person could easily make reference to a rabbi, maybe a rav, and maybe even a ...
Sweet Judgment
When I was a kid, every morning I’d watch my father shave from my perch on the rim of the ...
On Writing a Novel About The Act of Writing a Novel
I’m sitting on the back porch of my temporary lodgings in Atlanta, while two spiders go at it, the smaller ...
Whose Story Is It?
The first step for me in writing fiction is deciding which of my characters is telling the story. I might ...
Who Are Your Characters Really?
It’s amazing how many North Londoners have taken me aside in a furtive, conspiratorial kind of manner, in order to ...
Do My Characters Need to be Jewish?
Should I show my husband my work? My sister? My mother? Students sometimes ask me this. Go ahead, I say. ...