random question that ended up in my inbox this morning: Q:  What are you excited about in Judaism? A: G-d! physics! the creation of ...

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...

A while ago, I helped produce this series of movie adaptations of the Torah with G-dcast. Our plan at the time was to hit the Prophets and...

a new question from the FAQ desk. weirdly, three people asked me this today. so here is what i said, more or less. Why are you going back ...

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...

As someone with an OCD work ethic -- a perpetually cleaned-out email inbox, 10-minute "editing" sessions that end up being four ho...

So I'm editing this little daily email called Jewniverse , which tells you about one cool/amazing/unusual thing each day that you've...

I just wrote this to the uber-mentionable Yonah Lavery, creator of Talmud Comics (who, btw, just inked a deal with the also-awesome Ben Yeh...

This is the best birthday present I've gotten all year. Regina Spektor's third proper album, Far , is like that cynical older cousin...

Last winter, I was supposed to interview Regina Spektor in connection with Losers , my own Russian immigrant weirdo story, but she decided s...

How Jews Pray , the third in our "How Jews..." series, checks out what Jews are talking about -- from an Australian Jew in New Yor...

Inbal Freund is one of the most incredible human beings I know. She's the former director of Mavoi Satum , an organization that stops me...

While Googling for Torah texts, the last thing you expect to pop up is the kinetic face of your new favorite band . But Patrick A., the lead...

Dmitriy Salita is a Ukranian-born, Brooklyn-raised boxer who, at the age of 26, has an undefeated record over 26 career bouts. He's also...

From today's emailbox: When you think of G_d, do you think of an "entity" (I know it's not the right word, hopefully you g...

I turned to a blank sheet in my notebook. Very quietly, and very delicately, I detached it from the spirals. I started to write a note. And ...