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...

We're four episodes in, and my Lesbian Hasidic Cross Country Road Trip story -- a little serial thing that I'm writing for Hevria -...

I'm half asleep. There's a scuffling from downstairs. Eventually, Itta, freshly home from her restaurant , trudges upstairs. ITTA:...

Internal dialogue while bringing cereal back to my desk. ME: I already have a spoon at my desk! Thank G-d I remembered to leave it there b...

So I need to tell you, it's really weird being called onto a jury the day before  Yom Kippur . When I tell people, they've mostly ...

Are zombies kosher ? Or, more specifically, can zombies keep kosher? Asks a friend, the amazing comic writer Ashley-Jane Nicolaus : Long ...

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. ...

It was close to midnight, the latest I've been out in months. My friend Fred Chao had brought me to a comedy show in Chinatown, which...

Why do we love to read about food? I'm in the middle of Kosher Nation , a history of kosher food in America. The if the industry is a ...

Maybe it's the fact that all the Israelis I knew growing up were seriously cute girls (Orali in fourth grade, I'm looking at you ), ...

There's a new kosher restaurant right near our office. It's called Tiberias . The food looks yummy and the decor looks great and, ra...

I still haven't broken Passover. And I'm kind of cool with that. (Okay, I sort of promised myself as I sat down to write that this...

I always look forward to the Passover seder. Any ritual organised around reading a book is good by me (those people who shout Bible verses i...

No one ever said keeping kosher was easy -- or cheap. As we get closer to ">Passover , things like this become painfully apparent t...

There are deadlines, and then there are deadlines. I'm the Writer in Residence this month over at BrooklynTheBorough.com , and I was sup...

i hate it when you say a blessing on food that's way too hot to eat but you already said it, nothing you can do, so you just have to sho...

Matthue Roth worked on the set of the new CBS drama The Good Wife as an extra, and blogged about it Friday and Tuesday . The episode, ...

There is no better introduction to Paul Rudnick's book of essays, I Shudder , than its subtitle: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and...

One thing I've always wondered about the holiday of Sukkot : If the makeshift tabernacles that we're commanded to erect are supposed...

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