I was out to breakfast with my brother-in-law, who told me he really liked my latest Hevria piece. I thanked him, then immediately regretted...

Tonight while writing a post for Hevria , this amazing new group blog about art and G-d and Jewish stuff, I had to look up something in my o...

Today was long and intense, and almost entirely devoid of adults, and after I put the kids to bed -- we read the last chapters of Baby-Sitte...

maurice sendak is dead . i think this might be the thing that finally keeps me off facebook today. person after person mourning. when did ...

Q: Why is it that Steve Jobs is dead at 56 but Robert Mugabe and Gaddafi and Assad and all the murdering despots are alive and well? A: Da...

I wrote this story. I was sort of saving it for a while, waiting for something big to happen. And then it did. R.E.M. released the album...

It's almost Lag B'Omer, which is making me hella nostalgic for the Stern Grove Chabad party in Yoko a Go-Go . Well, part of it, anyw...

We love Regina Spektor -- I think that's been safely established . She has this Russian lion-in-pajamas thing going on where she's...

When I was in Junior Congregation services at OCJCC-BI in Philadelphia, we spent Tisha B'Av -- the holiday that's the anniversary o...

In Jewish practice, on the thirtieth day after a person dies, the mourners observe sheloshim -- a lessening in severity of the mourning pra...

Here's a cool and poignant little short film about going to a genizah , a sort of cemetery for books. A Torah scroll has been damaged in...

Rain in New York is never pretty, except when you're inside. Last night they put Murphy to sleep. Murphy was my best friend's cat. H...

The producer of our film just forwarded this to the production staff. It's small, but I think it's sweet. I know it sucks to turn ev...

This is Israel: Yesterday I was on a "nature trail," which, without doubt, is an Israeli euphemism for X-treme Sports. In Philadel...