Members of the Scribe

The characters in my novel,  The People of Forever Are Not Afraid , are Israeli. Because of that, my writing ...

There’s a district in Vilnius called Užupis, which has seceded from the rest of Lithuania and established its own republic. To ...

I liked to sit sipping coffee in the tall kitchen window of my apartment in Vilnius. The window overlooked the ...

I had fun in Vilnius, despite my low tolerance for fun. Not to mention that fun in Vilnius seemed like ...

In my Paris neighborhood, I am discovering France’s historic fear of outsiders. Indifference to the fate of those not inside ...

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...

In my last few blogs, I wrote of my hope that The Promise of Israel can help foster a new ...

In my previous blog, I wrote that I hoped that  The Promise of Israel might give new shape and direction to the ...

People sometimes ask: What would you like your book to accomplish? In this case, my answer is easy: I would be thrilled ...

Earlier this summer, I mingled among a group of amateur and professional genealogists at an international Paris conference exploring the ...

Most everyone has a family tree. But how do you turn a dry chart of birth and death dates into ...