Members of the Scribe

In my grandparents’ homes, as in the shtetlach from whence they came, the food was sweet and sour – just ...

Not too long ago, during a radio interview centered on Inside the Jewish Bakery , the host asked me, “What ...

When I walked down the airplane gangplank for the first time in Ben Gurion airport, I immediately noticed the baggage handlers ...

The idea for Too Many Latkes! came from one of my fondest childhood memories. My mother was the office manager ...

The memory of my cousin handing me my first copy of MAD Magazine when I was 12 is still fresh in ...

Michael Weingrad made something of a splash last year in writing “Why There is no Jewish Narnia” at the Jewish ...

Being compared to Philip K. Dick is great, especially when they secretly mean “will die a penniless paperback writer at ...

I might be obsessed with historical figures. Maybe it’s a Jewish thing. But my two most recent books were Osama ...

Yesterday, I put out a Twitter call: What should I write about? The always-dependable dlevy asked, in reply, “have you ...

As a glutton for torture (and as a recent parent, which is kind of the same thing), I’ve been taking ...