(Go and read my new column on Paul Robeson and Yiddish and then come back and read the rest) Once he was asked why, being so critical o...

My latest Golden City is up and in honor of this summer's Film Forum retrospective  **, it's all about Yiddish Cinema. In the l...

My latest GOLDEN CITY is up and it celebrates the hidden  heroes of the Yiddish world: the archivists. Really, it was just an excuse to go...

Brief post to say I have a think piece up at Tablet about the remarkable new movie Who Will Write Our History . The movie is part dramatiza...

I have a new piece up at Hey Alma about one of 2018's most intriguing documentaries, Three Identical Strangers . I found the movie comp...

I'm two-thirds of the way through the new Amazon Prime mini-series A Very English Scandal and let me say, I'm kind of obsessed. I...

Happy almost goyish New Year!   (Jump to the bottom for a couple juicy Yiddish events) Despite having a disgusting cold, I just spent a m...

My latest for Hey Alma, Yiddish Porn is Officially a Thing , is up now. My editor made me take out the best pun, though. Annie Sprinkle ha...

It's the end of the year and I'm shaking things up a little. I've posted two long read essays over at Medium . One is called My ...

Hey! It's Khanike and my new Golden City is here, all about the weirdness of everyone's favorite eight day festival of something so...