Tonight starts Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, the final round of Jewish holidays -- for this month, anyway! Here's a little mix tha...

I was in Ashland, at the Oregon Shakespeare Theatre, near where they filmed The Goonies  and Short Circuit . Their airport only had one gate...

Oregon is exactly the kind of place it is in The Goonies : clean and pleasant and charmingly run-down, like a well-lived-in shack or a frayi...

A few weeks ago, Talia Davis wrote to a bunch of Jewish techy and thinky folks and asked us what we thought about the future of Judaism. T...

When Frum Satire showed me In Over Our Heads -- billed as "the first unscripted Jewish reality television series" -- my knee-jer...

Jewish punk music might have ditched the kitsch for good. While I love myself some YIDcore , the silly Australian punk band, the Groggers...

We love B&H Photo & Video , the only midtown New York store that I actually have fun in that doesn't sell comic books or Legos. ...

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...

My wife and kid are out of town. Which means that I end up staying out past 6:30 p.m., my daughter's bedtime, and wreaking havoc on the ...

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

I never thought I'd say it -- at least, in this context -- but thank God that Matisyahu wears good clothes on MTV. On The View yesterda...

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...