Somebody just sent me this picture, of My First Kafka and Kafka's first Kafka. Also, if you haven't seen Rohan's work yet, y...

In 2002, I went on tour with this crazy Australian Jewish punk band called YIDcore . We played a Jewish punk-rock ball at Wesleyan, some New...

Just in case you weren't ready to have your mind blown, turn back now. You might think Darth Vader is narrating, but it's my uncle. ...

Today is a fast day , and it's a weird one. The Tenth of Tevet, according to MyJewishLearning (you can read more here ), is the day wh...

Packing now. It's been a breathless pair of months in Melbourne, and it's an added awesomeness that we get to come back here in a fe...

Granted, it's not me writing Uncanny X-Men , but it's on the other side of the camera. It's from Ethan Young's excellent e-c...

This is where I was this weekend: We didn't see the Wild Things. Or, we might have. No Spike Jonze, though. And this is one of my three...

Jews wear a lot of hats. I mean that metaphorically but also literally: from black hats to fur hats to little white tent- yarmulkes to doil...

Just called a friend from my work number. We haven't seen each other in a while. He's Australian, but has lived in Los Angeles for y...

The new site Punk Torah is live today! A few weeks ago, Patrick A -- the lead singer of the band Can Can -- started doing Punk Rock Parsha...

Last night, I had dinner with Ronald Lauder and some other folks who tackled a lot of different political, philosophical, and theological q...

today the masses of family-in-law converged upon our house, filling up the living room and dining room for possibly the first time ever. (he...