Members of the Scribe
Dating and Doctors
It was several years ago when my mother went for a flu shot to our family doctor, an avuncular, bearded ...
Who Are Your Characters Really?
It’s amazing how many North Londoners have taken me aside in a furtive, conspiratorial kind of manner, in order to ...
Recasting a Classic
Francesca Segal’s novel The Innocents is now available. I would never have set out to recast a classic, Pulitzer-winning American novel– ...
Five Comix about Israel Worth Reading
As a public speaker and comic book educator, people often ask me to recommend comic books or graphic novels of ...
Graphic Memoir: The Legacy of Harvey Pekar
JT Waldman co-authored and illustrated the new graphic novel Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me with writer and frequent ...
My Pekar Years
I met Harvey Pekar in 2005. On a whim, I gave him a copy of my book, and he really liked ...
Albert Einstein: A Highly Committed Jew
Albert Einstein may have been the most famous Jew of the 20th century. His biographer Walter Isaacson described that “when he ...
Arthur Mourant: It’s All In the Blood
If being Jewish were in the blood, then what better way to find the markers of Jewishness then by studying blood ...
Sarah’s Key, Mary’s Secrets, and Truth That’s Stranger Than Fiction
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. But it can be hard to tell.I did an enormous amount of research for ...
Chaim Sheba
In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to ...
Funny, You Don’t Book Jewish
Lois Leveen’s newest novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, is now available. There’s a novel I first read years ago ...
Joseph Jacobs: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Genetically
In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to ...