Unless you've been living under an unkosher rock, you probably know that we just said goodbye and git vokh to the marathon of holidays t...

Last Sukkes I was in another state, cleaning out the remnants of my mother's life and thinking about what a sukke and a cement storage u...

Just found a notebook full of these weirdo notes from 1999-2000-ish. Don't act like you don't have your own weirdo notes from the pa...

Please click over to Jewcy and read my interview with the translator of the Yiddish Waiting for Godot .

New Yiddish Rep's triumphant production of the Yiddish language Waiting for Godot is now in previews at the Barrow Street Theater. I s...

I stumbled on this a while ago, but just decided to blog about it. PRI partners with Israel Story to bring us a slice of life from Israel...

Nearly lost Yiddish language increasingly popular among Jewish college students This article from the JNS says that college students are ...

Now seems like a good time to share some exciting news. For the past few months/years I've been working on/sweating blood over my first ...

UPDATE: I saw Money, Love, and Shame! on Sunday night. Now, full disclosure, Yelena and Allen are old friends (and colleagues) of mine. Ho...

My friend Dov-Ber hipped me to a gem from the JTA Archive. It's a report from the 1923  Golden Jubilee Convention of the Union of Americ...