All the stuff
Look, it's turn-of-the-century swimming champ Rose Pitonof, aka "The Coney Island [...]
Leonard Bernstein and more
In Tablet Magazine this month, I criticized Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional [...]
Recent bylines
If you do not love Bread and Jam for Frances, [...]
I’m fine, how are you
Happy 80th birthday, Judy Blume! Let us not allow our [...]
Stuff I wrote
Farewell to Fred Bass, man of The Strand. (Plus: My [...]
The best Jewish children’s (and young adult) books of 2017
It's the Best Jewish Kidlit of 2017! Goth parfumerie Black [...]
What’s new?
Anti-vaccine hordes attack a Jewish children's book. Transgender Jews are [...]
Friends, friends, friends
I was so excited to interview Marty Krofft, of Sid & [...]
The Talmud of clueless
Clueless is now on Netflix, and replete with Jewishness! I took [...]
Letting bylines be bylines
Rosh HaShanah is nearly upon us. Honey cake sucks. Can [...]