Members of the Scribe
A Ghetto in the Middle of a City
Central Park, in the middle of the city of New York, is 843 acres. The Warsaw Ghetto, in the middle ...
Finding a Story to Tell
I did not mean to fall in love with the Bintel Brief letters. I grew up Jewish in the New York suburbs ...
In My Characters’ Shoes
One September afternoon I took the train from Berlin to Warsaw, as my characters had done. I wanted to see ...
The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief
In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the Forward , to complain that her watch ...
The Things I Miss About Israel
I made aliyah in 1999 at the age of 25 and lived in Jerusalem for a year, and then for two years ...
Make Passover Cooking a Family Affair
Following the release of my newest cookbook, Let My Children Cook! A Passover Cookbook for Kids , people often ask ...
A Glimpse into the English Charedi School System
The school was on a residential street in North West London. From the outside it was unremarkable, but the atmosphere ...
Recipe: Moroccan-Style Gefilte Fish For Passover
I recently presented a cooking demo based on my new Passover kids’ cookbook Let My Children Cook , in Jerusalem. ...
The Journey Back
Little did I know what I was getting myself into when one day I decided to delve back into my ...
International Transgender Day of Visibility: A Jewish Perspective
For a while, just as Transgender Day of Remembrance was getting established as an observance, a competing movement emerged. That ...