Hello friends. I just published what is probably to date  the most personally meaningful piece I've written for Haaretz . It's about...

2016 has been quite a year of loss. At times it feels like you've only just registered one when the next comes along. It's not a go...

Through the wonders of social media I recently made the acquaintance of playwright/journalist/historian/mid-western Jew of all trades, Max S...

Maybe you haven't heard? Joel Grey just published a memoir and it is fabulous . Being a Mickey Katz obsessive, I had a special incentive...

At this point you probably never want to hear the year's most awful portmanteau ever again: BREXIT. It's ugly, it smells like xenoph...

I have a new op-ed up at the English edition of Haaretz. The topic is red-baiting and the target, unsurprisingly, is Bernie Sanders. The pe...

This week I published my first op-ed for Haaretz (English language edition.) It's on the  rise (and fall) of Belgian viral selfie phenom...

Netflix recently made the 1990s cult cartoon classic  Animaniacs available for streaming. Off and on for the last couple weeks, I've be...

(from Lilith magazine, Spring, 2011)

A very young kid in a very large Borsalino just walked into traffic to hand me this important piece of election literature. Stakes are high,...