Members of the Scribe

I’m not a great believer in fate, but I certainly have encountered more than a few instances of bashert—that lovely Hebrew ...

I was in Vienna earlier this month to talk about my book and to show the documentary film I made at the U.S. Embassy’s ...

With very few exceptions, the story of American popular music in the last five decades is largely a story of ...

I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to tell this very dramatic, and heretofore almost completely unknown, Holocaust rescue ...

Some people find Christ in their darkest hour. Others turn to Allah. But if you’re a Jew, young, and in ...

Gender messages are all around us. From images in schoolbooks to images on bus ads, from conversations on the train ...

In my previous post, I described seven frightening trends of religious radicalism in Israel threatening women’s well-being and in some cases ...

Women being arrested for praying out loud at the Western Wall – it’s a story so shocking that it has managed to ...

Yes. But it’s complicated.My mother is Jewish, which, as my grandmother used to tell me, means that the Nazis would ...

In October 2007, my husband and I were looking for an apartment in Brooklyn. We’d seen too many to count ...

For the past 10 years I have devoted my professional life – and my imagination – to things most people ...

I started reading about the fate of the Jews during the Second World War when I was eleven. No one ...