Members of the Scribe

Abraham Cahan loved Yiddish, but he was not afraid of change. He urged his readers to be less religious, and to ...

Central Park, in the middle of the city of New York, is 843 acres. The Warsaw Ghetto, in the middle ...

I did not mean to fall in love with the Bintel Brief letters. I grew up Jewish in the New York suburbs ...

One September afternoon I took the train from Berlin to Warsaw, as my characters had done. I wanted to see ...

In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the  Forward , to complain that her watch ...

I made aliyah in 1999 at the age of 25 and lived in Jerusalem for a year, and then for two years ...

Following the release of my newest cookbook,  Let My Children Cook! A Passover Cookbook for Kids , people often ask ...

The school was on a residential street in North West London. From the outside it was unremarkable, but the atmosphere ...

I recently presented a cooking demo based on my new Passover kids’ cookbook  Let My Children Cook , in Jerusalem. ...

Little did I know what I was getting myself into when one day I decided to delve back into my ...

For a while, just as Transgender Day of Remembrance was getting established as an observance, a competing movement emerged. That ...

The Talmud says that on the day before we die, we should be sure to do “teshuva”—turning your awareness to ...