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Cutting-Edge Work in the Jewish Community
In Relational Judaism , I report six case studies of organizations and individuals doing cutting-edge work in creating relational communities. Chabad is numero ...
Relational Judaism For the 21st Century
As I travel around the country visiting Jewish institutions of all kinds, my “worry” quotient is growing daily. Nearly everywhere ...
Statues and Golems
I was 28 before I first saw the Statue of Liberty in person. I’d been accepted to grad school in ...
Under the Influence of Golems
Here’s a confession: I haven’t read that many golem stories. Or at least, as many as someone who’s written a book called ...
On Writing a Novel in Two Cultures
Yesterday I wrote that my novel, The Golem and the Jinni , is “pretty darn Jewish.” In truth, that’s only ...
The Most Jewish Thing I Do
When I started looking through the extensive and awe-inspiring Visiting Scribe archives, one theme kept popping out at me: the perennial ...
Allison Amend’s JBC Network Lessons
In 2011, I was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Thanks to this honor, I was invited ...
Almost Jewish
So why would a nice Jewish girl not write nice Jewish fiction? My last book, Stations West , was about ...
The Jewish Connection to Art
People ask me how much research I had to do on art forgery for my new book A Nearly Perfect ...
What is the Story?
The Mothers is the first book I’ve written that does not primarily consist of Jewish characters. It’s a little weird that ...