Members of the Scribe

I spent five or six years of my youth interviewing rock stars. I interviewed them backstage, after concerts. I interviewed ...

The recent Pew survey on Jewish America released earlier this month seems to confirm what many already believe: those of us outside ...

Whenever I tell anyone that mother was in a German labor camp during World War II, they assume she was ...

Jews of Today could never have begun as a project had I not encountered the phenomenon of the Hasidic enclave. As ...

So everybody knows that Hanukkah is all about miracles, right? I think when it comes to miracles we’re each entitled to our ...

One of the hardest things to get used to in writing a novel is cutting material to speed up the ...

The following is a “lost” introduction from a previous iteration of the Jews of Today project. It is much different in tone ...

Everyone likes lists, right? Who doesn’t like lists? Okay, fine, you in the back, maybe. But I like lists. And Buzzfeed seems ...

So my biography of Sholem Aleichem – the great Jewish writer, perhaps the greatest in modern Jewish history, the man who created ...

I’ve often been asked both by journalists and by my readers why my novel  The Elixir of Immortality  tells the ...

I left Stockholm in the fall of 1998 and moved to Oslo, for I had discovered the neighboring land’s greatest ...

Books have always fascinated me, even from the very earliest days of my childhood. As the child of Jewish intellectuals ...