Tonight I just wanted to sleep alone each touch of skin and furtive blanket movement nails across the blackboard  of my sleep. Sometimes I p...

Yankel, who used to be Jack, got kicked out of his last club on a Tuesday night. He wasn’t acting rowdy, not nearly as rowdy as the night wh...

  I didn’t know what I was going to say to my kids this morning. Each of them is at a different point of comprehension:  The election didn’t...

  Sometimes you just need to get out. There’s that moment at the bar where the debate is getting a little too intense and I’m getting a litt...

There's this little afternoon prayer service inside an office building. Today, because it was the anniversary of his aunt's death, ...

The morning started out good. First, I woke up at 7:30. Miracle! The kids went to bed late, and then my baby mama and I stayed up late, and...

When you pray by the first light of dawn, the Talmud says, Heaven pays attention to your prayers immediately. And when you time your prayers...

I still haven't broken Passover. And I'm kind of cool with that. (Okay, I sort of promised myself as I sat down to write that this...

i hate it when you say a blessing on food that's way too hot to eat but you already said it, nothing you can do, so you just have to sho...

I'm reporting to you live on location from the airport lobby. At 6:00 AM, the place gleams with a shine usually reserved for window-wash...

How Jews Pray , the third in our "How Jews..." series, checks out what Jews are talking about -- from an Australian Jew in New Yor...

In a few weeks, a new siddur is hitting the market with a translation and commentary by Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of the Un...

This is the kind of commentary that the world needs more of. Last night I was at dinner with a friend from Washington Heights. As far as Ort...

All weekend I've continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight's book The Taqwacores , which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...

A few years ago, right about the time I was becoming religious, I started getting hit with Seasonal Affective Disorder. It's a condition...