Members of the Scribe
Lost Stories
The Mothers is my third novel but it’s the first novel I’ve written that tracks so closely with my own ...
A Question for You
Hey, I have a question for you: How important is it for you to identify as a Jew? As a ...
Beyond Words
In New York City, in our Upper West Side apartment, my little brother and I watched my father act out ...
Empathy and Conflict
It seems to me that it’s hard for a feeling, empathetic person to know where to place himself in the ...
The Nuts and Bolts of Writing
Quite recently, someone asked me about my “process.” This someone wasn’t asking about the creative parts—the meandering through the dark, ...
Learning to Breathe
I needed something. Everyone was dying. Or at least a lot of people were dying and it felt like everyone ...
Precious Haroset
I am bored to death, dying of starvation and on the brink of losing my mind at Passover dinner at my father’s ...
Rabbi Gafni’s Revenge
Of all the representatives of the religious parties in Israel’s Knesset, none have been more powerful or outspoken than Moshe Gafni, ...
A Novel About Early Childhood
Some academics have observed that young Jewish writers do not mine their personal lives for material in the same way ...
Follow the Talmud or a Jewish Sharia?
No American Jew could have experienced a more inspiring introduction to Israel that I did upon arriving in darkness aboard ...