Leah Lax joined the Hasidic com­mu­ni­ty when she was six­teen years old, leav­ing thir­ty years lat­er and com­ing out as a les­bian. She shares her expe­ri­ence in…

Ear­li­er this week, Aviya Kush­n­er wrote about the ​“smash­ing, pos­i­tive­ly dash­ing spec­ta­cle” of mod­ern the­ater per­formed in Hebrew. She is the author of The…

Aviya Kush­n­er is the author of The Gram­mar of God, a mem­oir of her Jour­ney into the Words and Worlds of the Bible. She will be blog­ging here all week for the…

Sasha Abram­sky has been blog­ging here all week on The ProsenPeople’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series. Ear­li­er this week, he wrote about the con­ti­nu­ity of read­ing across…

Sasha Abram­sky is the author of The House of Twen­ty Thou­sand Books, a mem­oir explor­ing his grand­par­ents’ lives through their vast lit­er­ary col­lec­tion in…

Ear­li­er this week, Diana Blet­ter wrote about being not just a writer or a Jew­ish writer, but a Jew­ish woman writer. Her nov­el A Remark­able…