Members of the Scribe

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (or “JDS” as it was fondly known), the school my three brothers and I ...

My brothers and I together attended various Jewish day schools in France, then in Northern Virginia, and in Southern Maryland throughout our ...

I was born in Baltimore in 1954, nine years after the Shoah, one of signature events of the 20th—or any—century. That ...

Last weekend I ran the ING New York City Marathon, which was an amazing experience—essentially, a 26.2-mile long party celebrating ...

In radio and newspaper interviews I’ve done recently, a singular question has been asked more than any other: if your wife ...

My recently-published memoir,  What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife? , chronicles ...

Once upon a time, a person could easily make reference to a rabbi, maybe a rav, and maybe even a ...

When I was a kid, every morning I’d watch my father shave from my perch on the rim of the ...

The Bergen Record was coming to my house to do an interview for my new novel. You’d think after having ...

In a wildly unexpected and completely unpredictable turn of events, I fell madly in love, in Cologne. It was the ...

It took me years to know that going to the beach had anything to do with being close to the ...

I love pens and pencils. I have loved them all my life. Whenever and wherever I travel, I buy pens ...