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I get this question all the time: How autobiographical is your novel?The book’s style, setting, and protagonist invite the question: ...

My third book was published this week. Needless to say, I’m somewhere between panic and excitement. It’s the first one in English ...

Here’s something that just happened to me. I was walking with an American friend in the picturesque quarter of Neve-Tsedek ...

Kosher food certification has come a long way in the past one hundred years (see my earlier posts on the Baff ...

I was trying to figure out how to get people to buy  My First Kafka  from me directly instead of, ...

This past March, the owner of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market, Los Angeles’s largest purveyor of kosher meat, was discovered smuggling repackaged ...

My parents are getting ready to move, to abandon the house I’ve lived in since I was born, and we ...

The  Toronto Star  recently reported that several firebombings of kosher restaurants in Quebec may not be the work of anti-Semites ...

Memorial Day, 2007. I’ve drifted away from a Santa Monica beach party to gaze out at the Pacific Ocean, plus my ...

“Ashkenazi.” “Sephardic.” As a kid, wandering around the kiddish reception at our shul collecting cellophane ruffle-topped toothpicks in a plastic ...

I think of Claudia Silver, the eponymous heroine of my debut novel,  Claudia Silver to the Rescue , as one ...

My father’s artwork was always how I made sense of the world around me. The sometimes scary, ghetto Lower East ...