Every year, my faithful sometimes-editor David Levithan conducts his David Music Poll , and every year I faithfully respond. Here are my pic...

  The Rebbe in the Basement New York, Upper East Side: “Are you here to see the Rebbe?” someone asks, a guy I haven’t seen in maybe a decade...

I flew into and out of San Francisco in a day a few weeks ago. Did I tell you about it? Maybe not, it was a bit of a secret. By far, the w...

Hey! I've been super delinquent about posting. But not about writing, I promise. Finishing a novel, and writing a new children's boo...

Tonight while writing a post for Hevria , this amazing new group blog about art and G-d and Jewish stuff, I had to look up something in my o...

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...

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...

Tons of stuff to update, and I am totally truant. There have been a lot of people saying a lot of really nice things about Automatic , and I...

Just as a matter of site stuff: I added a page here for 1/20 , the movie I wrote. (It isn't the film's actual website , which is mor...

I wrote this story. I was sort of saving it for a while, waiting for something big to happen. And then it did. R.E.M. released the album...

Today is my grandmom's birthday. Here's a link to a poem I wrote about her . It's called Dizzy. I learned what Halloween as ...

Last night was a culmination of good fortune, good luck, and -- as always -- my wife running late. The good fortune came in the shape of a ...

David Levithan is my occasional editor and sometimes back-and-forth fan (I love his stuff, he says he loves mine, which I'm pretty okay ...

I kind of love this video, but I'm not sure how I feel about it morally. It's the Moshiach Oi! guys (your favorite Hasidic punk-rock...

So, because it's late on the night before this is relevant...let me just put this out there to the universe and see what you think. My f...

We love Regina Spektor -- I think that's been safely established . She has this Russian lion-in-pajamas thing going on where she's...

You know, I don't think I've ever actually heard "White Christmas." Sure, I know that it was written by Irving Berlin ,...

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

Jewish punk music might have ditched the kitsch for good. While I love myself some YIDcore , the silly Australian punk band, the Groggers...

Last night I went to my first taqwacore concert. Taqwacore is Muslim punk rock, and what that means to you is basically that I was in a roo...