This is a story which spans two New York summers. If you’ve ever spent a summer in New York, you know that the humidity is inescapable and t...

For the last year or so I've been yelling ( in print ) about how good my friend Miriam Udel's new book, Honey on the Page , is goin...

Just a quick note to let you know that you can now watch  Warsaw: A City Divided in a couple different ways, including streaming on Amazon ...

I was at brunch today with my friend Ari and he mentioned an old Saturday Night Live sketch I had never seen. It's a What If scenario: ...

L ike many American Jews, I don’t know much about my family history before their arrival in the United States. For one thing, I’m a third ge...

I closed out 2019 by fulfilling a longtime ambition: attending the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) conference as an invited member of a...

Yiddish  Fiddler  (aka Yiddler) was the unexpected off-Broadway hit of 2019. What else could I do but honor it's January 5th closing wi...

It's almost the end of the 2010s, in case you hadn't heard. Jewish Week is running a decade's end wrap up series and they were k...

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 ...