I want to believe that I’m the sum of all my experiences, that every time I pick up a pen and launch into a story I’m giving it everything t...

Hey! My story "Find the River" is about to be published in the collection It's a Whole Spiel, alongside luminaries like Alex L...

L ike the allusory joke of its title, Maxwell Bauman’s collection of short stories  The Anarchist Kosher Cookbook  has a very limited audien...

Last week I was performing, and then there was a Q&A session afterward -- which is always kind of weird; I feel like I should be the one...

matthue roth hey! you keep coming up in conversation. you aren't headed this way anytime soon, are you? Rob Auten I should be in NY...

Hey, remember how I said I was going to give away free stuff every month? It's January 1. It's here. Click to listen or hit the d...

Two weeks ago, I told my boss I was leaving. This is at my day job, understand--not my job job (writing poems and books and movies), or my ...

Our dear friend JT Waldman alerted us to this cool little wink to the Jewluminati. This week, DC Comics -- the company that publishes Super...

I became Orthodox under the guidance of someone who advised me to run from it. Rabbi Dr. Barry Freundel , the rabbi of the Kesher Israel Co...

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

OK, first up -- HBO's series Bored to Death just premiered. Here's the whole first episode of the new season: Jonathan Ames, t...

My new short story "Hailing Frequency" was just published (and you can hear or read the whole thing online). It's a story ab...

Here's a cool and poignant little short film about going to a genizah , a sort of cemetery for books. A Torah scroll has been damaged in...

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

Here's the new MyJewishLearning movie I produced. It's just in time for a return to the b-word -- you know, the one that some people...

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...

Among the religious community, there's a huge problem of agunot -- that is, women who want a divorce from their husbands, frequently be...

A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times did a story on Muslim punk-rock teenagers -- and we ran a critique of it -- and noted how the arti...

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...