I wrote a new short story on Hevria -- well, okay, half a short story -- but I have the whole thing in my head, and I'm, like, 98% sure...

It's not properly out until March 17, but I have a short story in a new collection called Jews vs. Aliens .  (There's also a compani...

This Monday night, I'm reading with some jaw-droppingly vital Hasidic writers in Crown Heights. Please be there. You really aren't g...

So, um, yeah. The Co-op last night. Utter craziness. First, a recap from the Daily Show: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11...

Me: It's great to see you here. But why did you move to Crown Heights? Ari: To show the people of Gotham that their city doesn't be...

I've got my first music writing gig in a while, reviewing the new Shondes album for the Forward . And while it's weird to be listen...

This morning I got an email from my friend Dugans (of the awesome band Dreams in Static ) asking, "Hey, isn't that you on some rand...

I wasn't dreaming of a white Purim , but that's what we got. Saturday night, Shabbat went out, and I shoveled out our car in raver ...

What do you look for in an etrog ? It was hard to top last year , but we had to try. Heshy Fried and I went on a fact-finding mission in the...

Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse -- Hasidic Jews, Caribbean immigrants, Park Slope peop...

It's official: we got our first Lubavitcher Rebbe video as a wedding souvenir last night.

OK, as promised : This past Saturday night was the first Hasidic poetry slam in Crown Heights, at least in the estimations of everyone there...

Once upon a time, Hasidim were known as a closeted, tight-lipped sect of Jews who practiced mysticism, dressed in an extreme and foreign man...

On the way out of his goodbye party last night, my doppelganger-in-name Shimon Roth grabbed me and said, "Are you gonna write about thi...

It's weird and somewhat scary to realize that you can put a cap on the number of Yiddish books ever published -- and, by most reckonings...

Hand-written scrawl on a bright orange piece of photocopy paper hanging on the street in Crown Heights: ADAR IS NOT OVER YET WHAT ARE YOU DO...

Someone driving through our part of Brooklyn honked at Itta and I, waving us over from the sidewalk. "What's going on?" she sa...

This is the kind of commentary that the world needs more of. Last night I was at dinner with a friend from Washington Heights. As far as Ort...

Because it's impossible to write enough stories on Hasidic Jews and sexuality, Nextbook has an article on dressing modestly in Crown Hei...

You'd think an etrog in Hasidic Brooklyn would be easy to find. After all, when I lived in San Francisco (Jewish population: high; etro...