Members of the Scribe

We can’t get enough of Maurice Sendak. The author, illustrator and Sesame Street animator is famously both crotchety and warm. ...

When I first anounced that I was writing a book about Ulysses S. Grant’s General Orders #11, the most notorious ...

You are working on what?” most of the people I met in Jerusalem asked while I was writing When General ...

Today, Alicia Oltuski interviewes Randy Susan Meyers, who wrote The Murderer’s Daughters, about her experience touring the nation’s synagogues and JCCs ...

Sometimes, standing in line for airport security toward the beginning of my book tour, I felt I knew what my ancestors ...

I went to a Modern Orthodox elementary school. For eight years I learned Hebrew (Modern and biblical), participated in Shabbat onegs ...

The hardest thing about breaking up with the Jewish guy I dated six years ago was breaking up with his ...

I realized late in life that my parents weren’t your typical Baby Boomers. My dad wasn’t anti-establishment. My mother wasn’t a feminist. ...

I’ve thought a lot about Isaac Babel’s lovely characterization of the Jew as a man with “[s]pectacles on his nose and ...

There’s a great Seinfeld episode–and one I relate to–in which George Constanza worries that he must have cancer because his life ...

One of the strange things about having your first book come out is that you think you’ve written one thing, ...

My fascination with New Mexico began in 2007, when I moved to Albuquerque sight unseen to write my first novel,  ...