I'm happy to say that the video is now available for the book talk I did with author Barry Trachtenberg for his latest, The Holocaust ...

New at Rokhl's Golden City :  Jeremiah Lockwood and the revival of traditional cantorial music ...With one holy tune, one can relay the ...

  Save the Date:   Listening Parties & Posthumous Release of The Ginzburg Geography Come to hear new songs, sing-along with her bandmate...

We’re coming up on the 30 th anniversary of the opening of the Bosnian war, which began, more or less, at the beginning of April 1992, and e...

  Jewish Currents, July-August 2006 The Sphere of the Endless [New York City, summer 2006. In which your faithful columnist heads to Joe...

January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day , marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the last few ye...

If you've ever studied a second language, you know there's a huge difference between the skills needed for passive reading comprehen...

 My Rokhl's Golden City comes out twice a month. Are you caught up? Did you see: Talking to the Dead :  A few months ago Brooklyn witch...

EDITED TO ADD : For kids my age ('80s babies) Jews in the Catskills means one thing: DIRTY DANCING. Well, on Tuesday, September 14, DIRT...

(Crosspost from my  movie blog ) A couple months ago I wrote about the neon-and-leather fairy tale flop,  Streets of Fire . It's finally...