Members of the Scribe

In the spring of 2009, Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi spoke at the Boulder Book Store to a jammed and eager audience. I was ...

In 1951 my family left the region in which they had lived since Nebuchadnezzar II took a bunch of Jews ...

I keep thinking about a scene from one of my favorite childhood novels, The Road Disappears Into the Distance by Alexandra Brushtein. The ...

I struggled to remember ever scrap of Judaism that I could. My family is secular. My mother feels uncomfortable in ...

My first job out of college was at a large insurance company in Baltimore. I was a computer programmer there, ...

In Iranian prison I didn’t hear the anti-Semitism that I anticipated. For months, I feared revealing my religion to guards. ...

How is this book different from all your other books?The most obvious answer: in Visible City, there are no description of ...

I started writing  Visible City  in the weeks after moving from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the suburbs ...

For me, writing fiction always begins with curiosity about other people: what are they really thinking but not saying? What ...

The father of philosopher Isaac Abravanel and grandfather of Judah the Lion (arguably the most famous member of this illustrious family) was ...

Renowned operatic baritone Thomas Hampson was once asked how he managed to keep from crying during a tragic aria. His ...

There’s nothing like old friends. They connect us with our past, remind us of the continuity of our life, embrace ...