Members of the Scribe

While some stars look Jewish or publicly identify as Jewish, supporting Israel—you go, Scar Jo!— or record Chanukah songs that ...

“Spring training” has just opened up. America’s favorite past-time signals warm weather, longer days, family outings, the good times. T-ball, ...

No thunder, bolts of lightning, heavenly voices, not even a friendly angel. Nonetheless, a transforming life experience, frozen in time ...

It’s no small secret that the Chosen tribe has had an enormous impact on the intellectual arena. Not to mention ...

Maimonides, popularly known as Rambam, was born on March 30, 1135. Maimonides is best known as a philosopher, prolific author and jurist: ...

It took me more than three years to finish  Shlepping the Exile . I had a job as a researcher ...

Plot was the last thing on my mind when I sat down to make a novel out of the stories ...

Although St. Martin’s Press would probably prefer me not to mention it,  Shlepping the Exile , which comes out next ...

I imagine many of us can remember exactly where we were when we encountered a favorite book—when we felt our ...

When I first read Chaim Potok’s  The Chosen  I wasn’t yet trying to be a writer myself, and was blissfully ...

I began my first post with a Sarah Silverman joke, so let me start this one with a more traditional example of ...

When you write a novel called  The Book of Jonah , when you base that book on the biblical Book of ...