Mixed Multitudes

An update on the evolution debate my home state of Crazyland, aka Texas. Just before the school year, the board ...

In recent months I have received a flurry of wedding invitations. I have also been helping plan my sister’s wedding, ...

The L.A. Times ran a piece a few days ago on Muslim punk-rock teenagers, which mostly served as an excuse ...

So it’s that time of the year when many people start buying calendars for next year. And some nice Jewish ...

Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...

Shalom TV is starting up a war! Everybody hit the floor so you don’t get hit!In an interview this week ...

Today on Nextbook, I wrote an article about the brilliant Motown funk of the Israeli colony of Dimona, a Hasidic ...

Okay, I just followed a Google Ad which led to a website advertising this book — a 636-page edition, limited ...

Last night I went to the Mechon Hadar beit midrash  for a session on prayer leaders, and what qualities a ...

(Editor’s Note: I’m not a creep.)Last year, when the writer’s strike in Hollywood was in full effect, I had plenty ...