When wine goes in, the secrets come out. In A Shtikel Sholom , a new memoir of stories about his teacher and mine, Sholom Brodt, Barak Hullm...

First thing: I promise this is not a subtle, passive-aggressive way of saying that you should really say happy birthday to me. Second: I ...

So, um, yeah. The Co-op last night. Utter craziness. First, a recap from the Daily Show: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11...

I just wrote about this Jerusalem of the Future contest for MyJewishLearning, but right before I posted, I found this. The title of this po...

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...

A day after its release, Nicole Krauss's novel Great House was named a National Book Award finalist , which is either a great bit of ...

My friend dropped me off across the street and pointed out the shelter where the minibus stopped. "The 16 sherut will take you strai...

Leaving Jerusalem, we passed the corner of Raz's house. I wanted to jump out and run there, to pop in for a second and stay there foreve...

Hey! So by the time you're reading this, I'm going to be far, far away, running to Israel for this odd Young Jewish Innovators conve...

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

In Jewish practice, on the thirtieth day after a person dies, the mourners observe sheloshim -- a lessening in severity of the mourning pra...

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...

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

This is Israel: Yesterday I was on a "nature trail," which, without doubt, is an Israeli euphemism for X-treme Sports. In Philadel...

On Tuesday, April 8, we celebrate Birkat Hahama , the Blessing over the Sun. It's observed once every 28 years, when the sun reaches the...

Last night, I had dinner with Ronald Lauder and some other folks who tackled a lot of different political, philosophical, and theological q...

During Yom Kippur services this year, I came up with the best praying strategy I've ever had, I think. It's the kind of thing that m...