I completely agree that this morning's New York Post cover is sketchy, and racist, and is basically anti-Semite-baiting creepiness. ...

The last girl I danced with was my Aunt Et. It was my sister's wedding. She was 98. Aunt Et was, not my sister. I'd spent most of th...

It's been a weird run of weeks. My First Kafka  is doing amazing. The BBC! The New Yorker ! Electric Lit! Google! (Granted, the Google...

Listen to this right now. Download it if you know what's best for you, just so you can listen to it constantly and nonstop. These are mp...

So a few weeks ago I stumbled across this weird video . It's a fashion show from the '80s, a Jean-Paul Gaultier collection featuring...

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...

So right now I'm on vacation in Chicago. Weird to do a trip where we're just visiting people and not Having Meetings or Running To D...

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

Just spent way more time than I realized on the phone with some folks at National Geographic, who are planning a documentary on the baal ...

I decided to be Orthodox in the middle of college. I was on scholarship to a very big school, and I was feeling very small. One of my best f...

Oh, hey! Check it out: My article for Patheos on Orthodox Jews and technology got picked up by the Washington Post and Newsweek! (I kno...

A few weeks ago, Talia Davis wrote to a bunch of Jewish techy and thinky folks and asked us what we thought about the future of Judaism. T...

Matthue Roth worked on the set of the new CBS drama The Good Wife as an extra, and blogged about it Friday and Tuesday . The episode, ...

We love B&H Photo & Video , the only midtown New York store that I actually have fun in that doesn't sell comic books or Legos. ...

I got to interview A.J. Jacobs for MyJewishLearning. I was excited and nervous and trepidatious -- I liked The Year of Living Biblically a...

I'm a big proponent of making the Torah relevant for modern society and everyday life. Maybe it's my whole Orthodox Jew trip of bel...

OK, as promised : This past Saturday night was the first Hasidic poetry slam in Crown Heights, at least in the estimations of everyone there...

Never Mind the Goldbergs flashback moment: Patrick A. of the band Can Can goes on a rant against hating Orthodox folks. "Some of the ...

Judaism is one of those cultural identities that, for most people, is able to be turned on or off. Matt Bar has an awesome song about it (...

I never thought I'd say it -- at least, in this context -- but thank God that Matisyahu wears good clothes on MTV. On The View yesterda...