I have a new poem on Hevria and I hope you like it. Without overtly intending to, it covers my 3 big themes: the human relationship with th...

I had the closest thing I'm probably going to get to a Kafka release party at this otherworldly party called Chulent. If you'...

So yesterday was Halloween, a holiday that causes me no end of consternation. You know how the Official Jewish Community is always talk...

So a few weeks ago I stumbled across this weird video . It's a fashion show from the '80s, a Jean-Paul Gaultier collection featuring...

We're huge fans of B&H Photo and Video, the famous  camera shop run by Hasidic Jews in the center of Manhattan -- one of the best s...

You probably already knew about this -- so, you know, feel free to scoff at my misfortune -- but if you (a) have kids and (b) they’re old en...

Tomorrow night, we'll be hosting the Biala Rebbe of Jerusalem, Rabbi Avraham Yerachmiel Rabinowicz , in our house. Some of our friends, ...

This morning I got an email from my friend Dugans (of the awesome band Dreams in Static ) asking, "Hey, isn't that you on some rand...

If you haven't gotten the flavour of Jeremy Moses's writing, what are you waiting for? Here's the direct link on MyJewishLearnin...

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

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. ...

Here's the moment I knew Matisyahu had stopped being a Jewish phenomenon and entered the realm of pop culture. My sister, who was living...

From my cousin Rom: Separated at birth? or: Well, neither of us knows how to use a razor, and we both spend a whole lot of time talking to G...

Mayim just sent out this puzzling email, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to publicize it or not, but she is awesome, and so I am. A...

Today is the 17th of Tammuz, the day when five big catastrophes happened in Judaism: * Moses smashed the original Ten Commandments; * The da...

Once upon a time, Hasidim were known as a closeted, tight-lipped sect of Jews who practiced mysticism, dressed in an extreme and foreign man...

In my new Nextbook column , I rave about the Hasidic POWER ROCK band Yood, the Middle Eastern dance-pop band Electro Morocco, and ZZ Top sho...