Members of the Scribe

In her introduction to her story “Kafka in Bronteland” which concludes our anthology Kafkaesque , Tamar Yellin writes:“For years I ...

Since my first encounter with Kafka‘s writing, I’ve been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in ...

Franz Kafka was a man who struggled with his many contradictions. Although his writing has come to be intensively studied, as ...

The other day I had a discussion with a group of girls about their ideal bat mitzvah (the celebration that ...

I didn’t have a bat mitzvah, the ceremony that marks the coming of age of Jewish girls. When I reached ...

In the few months since our book was published, women of different ages have come up to us with stories ...

Reputedly, Rachmaninoff once said: “There’s no such thing as inspiration. You sit down and do the work.” There’s so much ...

About a decade ago I read a Billy Collins poem called “Advice to Writers,” where this former U.S. Poet Laureate ...

One of my pet peeves is the veritable deluge of prepared foods and “meal assembly” emporia that has overtaken America ...

In my grandparents’ homes, as in the shtetlach from whence they came, the food was sweet and sour – just ...

Not too long ago, during a radio interview centered on Inside the Jewish Bakery , the host asked me, “What ...

When I walked down the airplane gangplank for the first time in Ben Gurion airport, I immediately noticed the baggage handlers ...