December 2013
In The Words of Chuck Selber, Part 3: In Memorial
Today marks 22 years since the passing of Charles Paul “Chuck” Selber.In honor of his yahrzeit, and to conclude our three ...
Mourning Edgar M. Bronfman
It is with great sadness that MyJewishLearning, Inc. notes the passing of our founder Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr. He was ...
Obscene Recommendations
Some of the literary works I deal with in Unclean Lips are relatively well-known—Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep (1935) and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), for ...
“Funny, You Don’t Look Jewish…”
Three Jewish women walked into a nail salon….This is not a joke, just what I did with two of my ...
VIDEO: Ruth Calderon: A Familiar Voice, from Israel
Many wonderful things happened at last week’s JOFA Conference. But the highlight for me was Israeli Knesset member Ruth Calderon’s impromptu ...
Is “Schmuck” a Dirty Word?
One of the points I make in my book is that what’s dirty in Yiddish isn’t always dirty in English, and vice ...
Pursuing your dreams?
About a year ago, someone recommended a Paulo Coelho book to me—a popular one— The Alchemist . Most people I ...
The Revolution Will be Televised: Why I Celebrate Survivor
There are a lot of adjectives that I can use to describe my identity, some more obvious than others. It ...
The Best Overlooked American Jewish Novelist
Stephen Dixon is, in my opinion, the best and most overlooked American Jewish fiction writer in the country. If I ...
Can We Print “Motherfucker” Here?
There’s a little experiment I’d like to try, knowing that this blog post will be published by the Jewish Book ...