This is just a quick post, and later than I should've put it up: A few nights ago Rav Sholom Brodt spoke at our house. Here are my notes...

this isn't mine, and i know the fonts are cringey, but it's what I needed to read today, I think. If you like it, check out shlomoye...

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

In Torah times, when someone accidentally killed another person, the victim’s family was allowed to make a revenge killing. The inad...

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

If you haven't noticed, since G-dcast started, we've been playing around with the way we tell stories. For Chanukah, we did a sweep...

Yes, I have several Mormon friends , and yes, they do make fun of each other for wearing what the more playful adherents of their religion h...

In Jewish practice, on the thirtieth day after a person dies, the mourners observe sheloshim -- a lessening in severity of the mourning pra...

Here's a cool and poignant little short film about going to a genizah , a sort of cemetery for books. A Torah scroll has been damaged in...

Of all the gigs I've ever had, this had to be the most extreme. And I wasn't even there. To celebrate reading the story of Noah in t...

So... Simchas Torah . Lately, it's become famous for being the #2 Jewish drinking holiday, but my past few Simchas Torahs have all been ...

For the month of Elul , I've been trying to get myself into shape. One of the things that Rebbe Nachman (and basically everyone else) su...

First of all: the important things in life. It's pretty quiet here, for a change. Working furiously on the new book, now that the mov...

Okay, I actually can't watch this. I'm a squirmer. Here's some live video footage of me doing my verse on Stereo Sinai 's so...

Here's the moment I knew Matisyahu had stopped being a Jewish phenomenon and entered the realm of pop culture. My sister, who was living...

Today is the first day of Rosh Chodesh Elul , which is basically a whole month spent preparing for one day. We blow the shofar and start re...

Okay, I was uneasy about this one. Because you guys know me as the big tough punk of G-dcast , and this is SO SWEET AND HIPPY. But it's ...

It's hard to top a beatbox harmonica Shema, but the first 3 seconds of Ekev really do it. Just the post-bris expression is what my 10-ye...

Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse -- Hasidic Jews, Caribbean immigrants, Park Slope peop...

When user-testing the Tagged Tanakh , the Jewish Publication Society's attempt to user-navigate the Bible, my first reaction was, this i...