Members of the Scribe

I have always been fascinated by epigraphs — those borrowed words that authors choose to introduce and encapsulate the message ...

German artist Gunter Demnig created these two Stolpersteine in memory of Samuel Sigmar and Alice Berta Gunzburger in 2005. He ...

In 1989 I accompanied my parents and brother on my mother’s first visit back to her birthplace of Freiburg im Breisgau ...

I met Peter Beinart in 1999 when he was writing an article for The Atlantic on Jewish community day schools. ...

When my ten year old daughter heads to sleep-away camp this summer she will follow a family tradition that began the ...

One of the greatest dilemmas I faced while writing  The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education was how to refer ...

What happens when the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, the Ninth of Av, which memorializes the destruction of King ...

As a writer, I’ve paid scant attention to the images that accompany my work. I’m usually too preoccupied with the ...

When you tell someone that you used to do gymnastics, she frequently answers that she, too, did it. When she ...

Sunday June 17th will be Montefiore day in Ramsgate, the faded seaside resort where Sir Moses and his wife Judith lived ...

For the past ten years I’ve been travelling the world in Moses Montefiore’s footsteps. This was a man who spent ...

Dr. Abigail Green’s new book, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero, is now available.What makes a good biography? I thought ...