Members of the Scribe

Some folks are born with the balabusta gene and others are not. It’s that simple. If you didn’t happen to grow up ...

I’ll confess right off that this is not my most embarrassing culinary moment, because I actually air the worst ones in my ...

My mother always told us she could do magic. And though my sisters and I were modern children of the ...

The one thing that has really shocked me about my new book is how Jewish it is.I’m a nonobservant Jew, ...

  “I didn’t think he’d do it. I really didn’t think he would.” That’s how I open my book, with ...

Like many people I know, I first heard the story of Abraham and Isaac as a child. I couldn’t have been older ...

Many people ask me, “What’s a nice guy like you doing in a field like this?” By which they mean: ...

In my novel,  Margot , I reimagine Margot Frank, Anne’s older sister, having survived the war and come to Philadelphia where ...

My grandfather was a  Kohen , which I’ve learned (thanks to Google) means he was a Jewish priest, a descendant ...

In my late teens, when the Air Supply song “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All,” was popular, I developed ...

When I was writing my memoir, which is sort of a chronicle of all my failed love relationships, each morning when ...

A few weeks ago I was asked to give a keynote address at a middle school. My ever-proud Jewish mother ...