Mixed Multitudes
Arizona & The Lost Tribes
I’m sure you don’t want to hear about my personal politics (after all, I voted for Buchanan in 2000). So ...
The Sports Kippah
Like we told you before, real Jews wear hats. Don’t wear a hat? Then you’re not a real Jew. Unless, ...
Eating Pork Rinds
More often than you would think, I get asked this question: If you were to eat something un-kosher, what would ...
Did I Fall Asleep and Wake Up in 1939?
There’s all kind of furor brewing over this woman named Stephanie Grace, a student at Harvard Law, who sent out ...
A Jewish Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day isn’t a specifically Jewish holiday — or, to put it more bluntly, the goyim celebrate it, too — ...
Jewish Poets Live in Berkeley
When I graduated college, I moved to San Francisco to get away from Judaism. No, that’s not right: I moved ...
Finding the Jews
On Monday, Dani Shapiro wrote about moving from Jewish NY to churchy Connecticut.In many ways, our move from the city ...
More Punk Music
I don’t claim to be an expert on music. It’s not my “forte,” so to speak. Let’s just say that ...
Give Her a Get
Jewish punk music might have ditched the kitsch for good. While I love myself some YIDcore, the silly Australian punk ...
The Great Parade
I’ve got my first music writing gig in a while, reviewing the new Shondes album for the Forward. And while ...
Apparently, All Jews Are Men
It hasn’t been an awesome few weeks for Jewish women. There has been a lot of brouhaha about the RCA ...
Jewish Google Storytelling
You know that famous Parisian love story commercial for google? The nice people at YouTube have made an easy little ...