MERION, Pa., July 24 (UPI) -- Chaim Potok, scholar, rabbi and author of the best-selling novel "The Chosen" died Tuesday at his home in Merion, Pa., of brain cancer. He was 73. Potok, born into an ...

Chaim Potok was a novelist who paved the way for a younger generation of religious American Jewish writers — and a Jewish scholar who worked tirelessly to bring Jews and Judaism closer together. Potok ...

"You want to write stories, darling?" asked Mollie Potok of her son. "That's very nice. You'll be a brain surgeon. On the side, you'll write stories." Confronted by a Jewish mamma of legendary ...

Chaim Potok was a novelist who paved the way for a younger generation of religious American Jewish writers — and a Jewish scholar who worked tirelessly to bring Jews and Judaism closer together. Potok ...

Note: This article was selected as a finalist for The Norman E. Alexander Award for Excellence in Jewish Student Writing Contest. About 60 high school contestants from around the country answered the ...

A farbrengen is a Hasidic spiritual gathering–it can be just a handful of people, or a few thousand. Stories and folktales are told, wordless niggunim are sung, and, more often than not, alcohol is ...

Long before Chaim Potok wrote his classic 1967 novel “The Chosen,” the young Hasid was busy making art. “He was told there were more important things to do, so he gave up drawing and painting, and ...

All of his life, Chaim Potok’s novels explored the devastating effects of enforced silence. That was why he didn’t stop – couldn’t stop – writing until yesterday, when he died from brain cancer at age ...

(JTA) — Robert Gottlieb, the legendary literary editor who shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” and Chaim ...

Chaim Potok, who died on Tuesday aged 73, was a Rabbi, philosopher, historian, and novelist, whose stories depicted the life and culture of Orthodox Jews and the tensions between Judaism and the ...