Do you believe in ghosts? I'm open to convincing, but the only proof I'll accept is when (not if) Leonard Cohen's ghost pays me ...

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...