Members of the Scribe

The Talmud says that on the day before we die, we should be sure to do “teshuva”—turning your awareness to ...

In the spring of 2009, Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi spoke at the Boulder Book Store to a jammed and eager audience. I was ...

In 1951 my family left the region in which they had lived since Nebuchadnezzar II took a bunch of Jews ...

I keep thinking about a scene from one of my favorite childhood novels, The Road Disappears Into the Distance by Alexandra Brushtein. The ...

I struggled to remember ever scrap of Judaism that I could. My family is secular. My mother feels uncomfortable in ...

My first job out of college was at a large insurance company in Baltimore. I was a computer programmer there, ...

In Iranian prison I didn’t hear the anti-Semitism that I anticipated. For months, I feared revealing my religion to guards. ...

How is this book different from all your other books?The most obvious answer: in Visible City, there are no description of ...

I started writing  Visible City  in the weeks after moving from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the suburbs ...

For me, writing fiction always begins with curiosity about other people: what are they really thinking but not saying? What ...