Mixed Multitudes
The Stage vs. the Page
In his last posts, Joel Chasnoff, author of The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah: ...
Don’t Waste the Mumps
Have you heard about the mumps outbreak in the ultra-Orthodox community? The New York Times can fill you in on ...
The Dangers of Jewish Food
Do you know about Uncyclopedia? It looks like Wikipedia, but it bills itself as “a content-free encyclopedia that anyone can ...
Meeting My Giants
In his last post, Joel Chasnoff, author of The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah: ...
Omri, We Meet Again
Last time I was at a Sacramento Kings game, I had full access to the team’s locker room and I ...
Mila-4-Phone
Now I’ll admit to you something. I don’t actually have an iPhone. However, there are people here in the office ...
Goldie Goldbloom Talks POWs, Hasidic Jews, and Hot Italians: The Toads’ Museum Interview
Goldie Goldbloom‘s first novel, Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders, comes out in February after having won the AWP Prize, ...
Help Poor Me
You know how sometimes you have a song in your iTunes library, and you know you like it, but somehow ...
A Jersey Shore Spinoff
There’s been a lot of talk about Jersey Shore lately. A lot of people are talking about how the show ...
Joel Chasnoff: Judging a Book by its Cover
Joel Chasnoff, author of The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah: A Memoir , is ...
Best of the Week
Last week, I mentioned that I was bothered by the amount of hits Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” had ...
The Future of Jewish Music
I love seeing YouTube videos and immediately thinking, “This is a parody, right?” Even better than that is the realization ...