Holy shit. This fall will mark my 20th anniversary living here in the Big Apple. I think I'm gonna need some more time to digest t...

I just saw an intriguing article in the Times of Israel, Numbers game: Do Jewish leaders manipulate existential fears with statistics?   It...

Last week slimy Brexit cheerleader and nasty little UKIP troll Nigel Farage trolled us once again, this time claiming (incorrectly) that Cad...

The 2013 study Pew survey of American Jews served up some sobering statistics, most notably, that the intermarriage rate for American Jews w...

How do you say 'email' in Yiddish ? I'll admit, this New York Times piece about the new Comprehensive Yiddish-English Diction...

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...