Here's a poem. I wrote it half-jokingly as a pitch for Marvel, recasting Sabra (who started showing up as the "Defender of Israel...

Okay, my new music column is up -- which discusses the infamous "Bart & the Hasidim" episode of "The Simpsons," amo...

You'd think an etrog in Hasidic Brooklyn would be easy to find. After all, when I lived in San Francisco (Jewish population: high; etro...