Sometimes you need someone else to teach you what you already know. Thanks, Max Kohanzad, for sending me this little piece of my book.

This is what I was doing on September 11, 2001, and then what I'm doing right now. Just pulled out my copy of Yom Kippur a Go-Go, which...

Such an intense and flattering review of Yom Kippur a Go-Go on Goodreads . I asked, and received, permission to repost it. I just came ac...

So I need to tell you, it's really weird being called onto a jury the day before  Yom Kippur . When I tell people, they've mostly ...

I've been going to synagogue every morning this week, which is rare for me. I used to skip synagogue all the time because I slept too la...

A few weeks ago, I got an email from a writer named Adi Elbaz . She'd just finished Yom Kippur a Go-Go and wanted to talk to me. Could s...

If you're click-happy, there's a new interview with me in The L Magazine today. It's mostly about my memoir  but  there's s...

I was in Ashland, at the Oregon Shakespeare Theatre, near where they filmed The Goonies  and Short Circuit . Their airport only had one gate...

Just when you thought Yom Kippur was over -- I mean, it is -- Sukkot shows up and blows all your expectations out of the water. There's...

I am a slacker, but a repentant one. The tashlich ceremony, where we ask forgiveness by praying at the water, is supposed to be done on Rosh...

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 ...

This morning I got an email from my friend Dugans (of the awesome band Dreams in Static ) asking, "Hey, isn't that you on some rand...

It's almost Yom Kippur. And what better way is there to celebrate than to get a free copy of my tell-all memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go , abo...