Members of the Scribe
Young Jewish Athletes
My brothers and I together attended various Jewish day schools in France, then in Northern Virginia, and in Southern Maryland throughout our ...
The Burden of Silence
I was born in Baltimore in 1954, nine years after the Shoah, one of signature events of the 20th—or any—century. That ...
The Day School Beginnings of a Marathon Runner
Last weekend I ran the ING New York City Marathon, which was an amazing experience—essentially, a 26.2-mile long party celebrating ...
Claiming Myself as a Victim of Terror
In radio and newspaper interviews I’ve done recently, a singular question has been asked more than any other: if your wife ...
How My Memoir Convinced the NY Post to Advocate for Israel’s Destruction
My recently-published memoir, What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife? , chronicles ...
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 ...
Kosher Soup for Ramadan & Other Tales of My Mother’s Moroccan Childhood
The Bergen Record was coming to my house to do an interview for my new novel. You’d think after having ...
Falling in Love in Cologne
In a wildly unexpected and completely unpredictable turn of events, I fell madly in love, in Cologne. It was the ...
Beach Memories
It took me years to know that going to the beach had anything to do with being close to the ...