Members of the Scribe

Before I’d settled on acting or writing, my greatest aspiration was simply to “Be Anne Frank,” and when I was twelve, ...

Like most people, I used to view doubt and faith as occupying two opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum. In my ...

When I was a kid, I got sent to a sports camp outside of Philadelphia. Which was sort of the ...

I’ve written a book about my “spiritual journey,” fully aware what an oft abused, dangerously clichéd term it is. The ...

I spent several years traveling the world, trying on different faiths, seeing which one fits. At the end of my ...

In December, not long after Among Righteous Men was published, I returned to Crown Heights. The evening was unseasonably warm, and ...

In my last blog post, I wrote about the genesis of my book,  Among Righteous Men , and the emotional connection ...

Matthew Shaer is the author of Among Righteous Men: A Tale of Vigilantes and Vindication in Hasidic Crown Heights. He ...

I keep a collection in my head of the names of stories, movies, pictures that seem perfect to me. They ...

Liana Finck is adapting old Yiddish press self-help columns into a book. This week, she’s letting us peek behind the ...

This is the first page of a comic book I’m working on. It’s based on the Bintel Brief, a popular Yiddish ...

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as ...