Of the many reasons I love Eric Linus Kaplan , here is the most recent: [–] Smalz22   1 point   8 minutes  ago I love Futurama, it...

Tons of stuff to update, and I am totally truant. There have been a lot of people saying a lot of really nice things about Automatic , and I...

Today is Bloomsday, named after Leopold Bloom, the main character of James Joyce's Ulysses and patron saint of 21st-century literary sn...

Confession time: Captain America has never been my favorite superhero. I'm a Marvel boy, tried and true, and even though the X-Men ha...

Like we told you before, real Jews wear hats . Don't wear a hat? Then you're not a real Jew. Unless, of course, you wear a doily , i...

I got to interview A.J. Jacobs for MyJewishLearning. I was excited and nervous and trepidatious -- I liked The Year of Living Biblically a...

Yes, this stuff is in the Torah. The Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible: I'm not even talking about midrash or Mishna or anything. There it...

The best Shavuot I ever had, I made myself. I invited a bunch of friends, cooked a bunch of food, and then prepared myself for the all-night...

In a few weeks, a new siddur is hitting the market with a translation and commentary by Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of the Un...

Oh, NOES. Coming slightly behind the Watchmen Babies on The Simpsons is this -- a funked-out '80s recreation of the Minutemen. I love ...