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Best of the Week

How was your week? Do anything fun? I watched four straight hours to television last night! That was crazy fun. ...

Is Pauly D’s Stalker Girl Orthodox?

Finally! An excuse to talk about Jersey Shore! It’s funny that with all the talk that the MTV show gives ...

From the Academy: Holocaust Studies

Avinoam J. Patt serves as the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Hartford, and ...

Wise Fridays: Do Not Stand Idly By

If you hear informers plotting to harm someone, you’re obligated to inform the intended victim. If you can somehow stop ...

Where Are the Good Kosher Caterers?

This is one of my real pet peeves. Plain and simple: there are not very many kosher caterers, and most ...

Jewish Atheism vs Atheism

In her last post, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein wrote about the inspiration behind Azarya Sheiner, the heart of her new novel. ...

JESNA Thinks We’re Great

Last week, the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) made a list of the Best in Jewish Education over ...

Six Points Fellowship Applications

Just passing the word along about a fantastic program here in New York. If you are an emerging Jewish artist, ...

Why I Don’t Eat Animals

I was just interviewed on the blog Heeb ‘n Vegan. Michael Croland, who runs the site, managed to get a ...

The Case for (a Fictional) God

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, is guest-blogging all week ...

Miep Gies Shows Us the Secret Annexe

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank during the Holocaust, has just died at the age of 100. The New ...

Where Good Ideas Come From

In the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories, all good ideas come from an Idea Fairy, who sneaks into ...

How Have We Not Talked About Drake?

Seriously, how have we not mentioned Drake on Mixed Multitudes yet? What is wrong with us?If you don’t know who ...

Fast for Rain

According to IsraelNN, the Chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Amar has called for a fast and prayer for ...

Reading As a Jew

Last week I read from my novel Losers at the Brooklyn Public Library. We had an awesome time. It was ...

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