Via Daniel Boyarin's epic book Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and and the Invention of the Jewish Man : S...

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 ...

I had a reading last Thursday and Electric Literature was kind enough to write it up : " Roth has a charm about him that entices you, n...

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

Tonight starts Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, the final round of Jewish holidays -- for this month, anyway! Here's a little mix tha...

I wrote this last year. Stumbled across it on the Intertube. I don't know how I got there, but it feels like a sign from somewhere. I ha...

Are zombies kosher ? Or, more specifically, can zombies keep kosher? Asks a friend, the amazing comic writer Ashley-Jane Nicolaus : Long ...

Today is Bloomsday, named after Leopold Bloom, the main character of James Joyce's Ulysses and patron saint of 21st-century literary sn...

Fox Studios released four new clips from the new X-Men movie last night. If you've followed my posts about Magneto's history as a H...

This week, we got ready for our new Purim video, which we're getting prepared and mixed and psyched to show you. It's a big first fo...

If you haven't noticed, I've been even more random and scattered than usual, working on the G-dcast Purim movie, one article that m...

Confession time: Captain America has never been my favorite superhero. I'm a Marvel boy, tried and true, and even though the X-Men ha...

It was close to midnight, the latest I've been out in months. My friend Fred Chao had brought me to a comedy show in Chinatown, which...

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...

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

Today is a fast day , and it's a weird one. The Tenth of Tevet, according to MyJewishLearning (you can read more here ), is the day wh...

Being an editor at a Jewish blog has its perks. Sure, there are the long hours and lousy pay, but you get tons of review items in the mail. ...

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 couple of random thoughts, too long to tweet about but short enough to shoot a couple of bullets through. Some of them are kind of literar...

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