In case you don't follow me on social media, I thought I'd give you an update on what I've been doing. *For the holiday of S...

I wanted to make sure you're all aware of a truly special  conference coming up on November 4th:  Rokhl Oyerbakh, The Bridge Between ...

(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...