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

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...

In 2002, I went on tour with this crazy Australian Jewish punk band called YIDcore . We played a Jewish punk-rock ball at Wesleyan, some New...

For someone whose life is writing on the Internet,  Patrick Aleph  still has a lot of secrets. Aside from running the alterna-Torah si...

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 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...

When I lived in Prague, My friend K. and I used to do graffiti. You can call it stencil art or tagging or whatever, but in Eastern Europe, t...

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...

The slammin' Melissa Broder hosts the Polestar Poetry series, and she just tried something new*: picking an album (in this case Nirvana...

On MyJewishLearning, I interview Patrick Aleph and Michael Sabani about the Punk Torah Siddur that they wrote designed, and released. My fa...

Just wanted to share two quick items of movie awesomeness with you: 1) "1/20" has an IMDB page ! (No, I'm not on it yet. But...

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

924 Gilman Street in Berkeley is a volunteer-run concert space that was famous in the '80s for hosting huge fights and riots, and famou...

This week's G-dcast makes me really happy. Not the idea of Korach rebelling, or the whole thing where the earth itself swallows up 250 ...

The new site Punk Torah is live today! A few weeks ago, Patrick A -- the lead singer of the band Can Can -- started doing Punk Rock Parsha...

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

While Googling for Torah texts, the last thing you expect to pop up is the kinetic face of your new favorite band . But Patrick A., the lead...

On Jewcy, I interview Jennifer Blowdryer , who might be my favorite person in the world who ever made me inadvertently homeless. Two days be...

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

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...