Writing
40,000-year-old markings may be the roots of script
German discovery of Stone Age art may reveal a precursor to writing
Lauren Adilev: from everywhere to Kiryat Arba
AI meets screenwriting - a first-of-its-kind global course at the Sam Spiegel school
Judith Segaloff: A writer and designer – powerful, prolific, and productive
Yiddish writers knew from pogroms. Here’s what they can teach about Tulsa
How Yiddish writing viewed matters of race in America.
Three-day Poets' Festival in Metulla uses poetry as therapy
There are not a few poetic works which challenge the intellect, and invite us to delve as deeply as possible into some hidden meaning, lurking somewhere beneath the textual surface
Jerusalem storyteller: Dvora Waysman shares gems on her 90th birthday
“My mother never laughed at my dreams. She always helped me make them come true.”
Writers Festival: Safran Foer analyzes identify, art and influence
Safran Foer was something of a wunderkind, bursting onto the global literary stage in 2002, at the tender age of 25 with his well-received debut offering, Everything Is Illuminated.
Their writing helped make sense of COVID - their thoughts on year two
I asked those who wrote essays for JTA in March of 2020, just as the upsets were beginning in earnest, to share how their lives and thinking have changed since then.
Ethical will: How to tell your tale to convey your ethical values
Events that shape our lives are not always apparent to those around us.
Walter Bernstein, respected blacklisted screenwriter, dies at 101
Walter Bernstein, a proudly “secular” Jewish screenwriter best known for his 1960s and ’70s dramas and for being blacklisted during the McCarthy era, has died at 101.
International Bestselling Author Kaia Ra’s Journey from Tragedy to Triumph
Writing about health as therapy and a commitment device
Writing about health can be a kind of therapy, a means of turning a bad break into something with a more positive (if not altogether happy) ending.
The story behind ‘Mank:' 'Citizen Kane's Jewish screenwriter
It’s likely that only the most zealous of film buffs are aware of the Jewish sides to Mankiewicz’s story. Here’s some of that history.
