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In the winter, there’s nothing I like more than huddling around a table in a warm kitchen with good friends, ...

The excellent David Keesey — guitarist, singer, and all-around huggable dude — is playing tonight at Webster Hall with one ...

Shifra Shomron’s novel Grains of Sand: The Fall of Neve Dekalim tells the story of Efrat, a teenage girl living ...

Today is the 17th of Tammuz, the day when five big catastrophes happened in Judaism:* Moses smashed the original Ten ...

I’m getting very very close to the end of the 11 months of saying Kaddish for my mother, and I ...

8:00 a.m. It’s been 7 hours since last night ended — and 3 hours since I woke up — and ...

Bluish? Newish? Shrewish? Trueish (a cousin of truthiness)?Get on your thinking caps, because we’re launching a Bad Poetry Contest to ...

Since my intellectual prowess in all things Gossip Girl has clearly been proven on Mixed Multitudes, it’s no shocker that ...

When I first became obsessed with books, at the age of 9 or so, my Russian parents proudly told me: ...

Tonight I’m giving a dvar torah, and I’m nervous. So I set my Twitter status to say exactly that. My ...