2013

One day each year, students across the country pledge to take some form of silence. In the hallways, in the cafeteria, they ...

Last week, the Alabama House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting up a procedure to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, ...

Camp and summer romances go hand in hand, and once in a while those early relationships actually go the distance.  ...

Political discourse finds expression everywhere it can. People discuss their convictions over dinner, at water coolers in the office, in ...

The Mothers is the first book I’ve written that does not primarily consist of Jewish characters. It’s a little weird that ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...

We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...

Rabbi Isaac Saposnik is the director of Camp JRF in South Sterling, PA.When I tell people that I’m a camp ...

The Mothers  is my third novel but it’s the first novel I’ve written that tracks so closely with my own ...

 I am writing this blog from my bunker in Los Angeles, so if it doesn’t make perfect sense when you ...