Jewish Culture

The Workmen’s Circle—Arbeter Ring in Yiddish—is a Jewish fraternal organization devoted to progressive politics, the labor movement, and Yiddish language and culture.  In its ...

I’ve been told that students in my college courses sometimes have trouble following what I’m saying because I speak backwards.The ...

“Start working on this great work of art, called your own existence”– AJ HeschelA Life well lived is an art: ...

What do Yiddish-speaking chickens, screaming latkes, and a pig who really, really wants to be kosher have in common?They’re all ...

In  Operation Shylock , Philip Roth wrote a passage that, had he not written it, we would have needed to ...

Dear Sarah,Hey girl! I read the open letter written to you by that rabbi in Dallas. You know, the one ...

There are white Jews, Black Jews, Asian Jews, and Arab Jews – but blue Jews? No, no such thing exists. ...

I liked to sit sipping coffee in the tall kitchen window of my apartment in Vilnius. The window overlooked the ...

I had fun in Vilnius, despite my low tolerance for fun. Not to mention that fun in Vilnius seemed like ...

Sometimes, in a small Southern town, you might not hear the call of the shofar outside of High Holy Day ...

This past May I published an essay in The New York Times titled “Do the Jews Own Anxiety?” Not long afterward, ...

As a writer, I’ve paid scant attention to the images that accompany my work. I’m usually too preoccupied with the ...