Members of the Scribe

Festivus, the secular December holiday credited to a screenwriter of the 1990s television sitcom Seinfeld, grew in popularity beyond its television ...

These tales of Deborah, Ruth and Hannah are wonderful stories, full of vivid characters and human drama — a pleasure for all of ...

So you want to dress up as Santa?!!! This is not as unusual as it might seem! I have covered ...

I’ve adored illuminated manuscripts all my life — as a child and teenager, these were the postcards I’d take home ...

The period immediately after your book comes out is a wonderful and strange time. On the one hand, the work you’ve done—which ...

Is my fiction Jewish? In my last blog post I came to a firm conclusion: yes—and no. Well, I think I ...

I think most Jewish writers, at one time or another, face the question of what makes them Jewish writers, as opposed ...

Growing up in Orthodox Brooklyn, all that was forbidden to us was, by its nature, exotic. We did not have ...

Perhaps after I was born, someone sneaked into the hospital nursery and instead of snatching me, stood above me and ...

Most of my stories begin with an image or a line that arrives whole and I follow it into the ...