by Leslie A. Kimmelman “Why do you write so many Jew­ish books for kids?” I’m asked frequently. The truth is, writ­ing Jew­ish books for kids was nev­er my inten­tion.…

This week, JBC Net­work author Wendy Wax, the author of While We Were Watch­ing Down­ton Abbey, blogs for The Post­script on the inspi­ra­tion for writ­ing her newest…

Nina Sie­gal grew up in New York City and Great Neck, Long Island, but these days she lives in Ams­ter­dam, the Nether­lands, where she works as an author and…

Ear­li­er this week, Devan Sipher wrote about a trav­el sto­ry in the bible that goes ter­ri­bly wrong and shared six things he learned writ­ing about wed­dings for…

Ear­li­er this week, Mar­gare­ta Ack­er­man wrote about try­ing to rec­on­cile her gran­fa­ther’s hap­py per­son­al­i­ty with the hor­rors he suf­fered dur­ing the…

by Dina Wein­steinBooks on the 1964 Mis­sis­sip­pi Free­dom Sum­mer are clas­si­fied under African Amer­i­can his­to­ry and civ­il rights. But the project was rife with…