Wayyyyyyy back last spring, Clarissa Marks asked me to be a guest on her podcast On Wandering . Though we recorded months ago, luckily , alm...

One of the pleasures of my work is discovering and sharing new Jewish art and culture. In the case of The Canvas and other stories , the new...

In just a few weeks we will be celebrating at the 9th annual Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Memorial Concert and Award .  The Dreaming ...

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...