Members of the Scribe
Rabbi Gafni’s Revenge
Of all the representatives of the religious parties in Israel’s Knesset, none have been more powerful or outspoken than Moshe Gafni, ...
A Novel About Early Childhood
Some academics have observed that young Jewish writers do not mine their personal lives for material in the same way ...
Follow the Talmud or a Jewish Sharia?
No American Jew could have experienced a more inspiring introduction to Israel that I did upon arriving in darkness aboard ...
My Name Is Inigo Montoya
Remember Mandy Patinkin’s character Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride ? When Montoya was a child, the story goes, the six-fingered ...
Religious Political Power in Israel Comes to a Halt
For many years the political power of Israel’s Orthodox minority spread as if it would never reach a limit. While ...
Why I Put a Map in the Bronfman Haggadah
Many people have asked why I included a biblical map in The Bronfman Haggadah . Well, for starters, I love ...
The Best Place on Earth
A few weeks ago I was asked to provide a blurb for an about-to-be-published collection of short stories, The Best Place ...
How I Became an Illustrator
When Edgar asked me to illustrate the text of The Bronfman Haggadah , which at that point he had been ...
Deciding to Forgo Research
One of the great pleasures of writing for me is researching historical events and details that help me understand and ...
A Departure From the Traditional: The Bronfman Haggadah
When I set out to create the illustrations for The Bronfman Haggadah , I knew I wanted it to be ...
Whose Story Is It?
The first step for me in writing fiction is deciding which of my characters is telling the story. I might ...
Why it Matters that Marshall was Never Nominated for the Supreme Court
The main challenge I faced when preparing a biography of Louis Marshall stemmed from the gap between the perceptual confidence that characterizes ...