Life
Casting the Perfect Baal Teshuva
Just spent way more time than I realized on the phone with some folks at National Geographic, who are planning ...
Get Over Yourself, It’s Elul
When I was in Jewish day school (all hellish thirteen years) I came to expect that in the weeks leading ...
Death of a Hip-Hop Jew
It kind of sucks to find out about a great story of someone’s Jewish journey through hearing about their untimely ...
What Seinfeld Teaches Us About Judaism
This video has been making the rounds recently, and I was originally skeptical, but it really is hilarious. The repetition ...
Wise Fridays: Write Your Own Book
“Do not be alarmed when you find the words of the great ones in the land who disagree, but search ...
A Show About Circumcision
I guess that, in the back on my mind, I always knew that some Jews got adult circumcisions (what an ...
Wise Fridays: Judaism Can Save Your Life
“Judaism, done right, has the power to save your life from being spent entirely on the trivial…But it can do ...
My First Bat Mitzvah Party
The other day, I wrote about vomiting at my bar mitzvah party. Not my finest hour.Since then, I’ve been thinking ...
How Do You Want to Spend the Last Days of Your Life?
This isn’t a fun question, but it’s an important one: What kind of death do you want? If you found ...
Paul Rudd–DJ Extraordinaire
Looking back, I didn’t totally enjoy my bar mitzvah party. Mostly because I vomited at it.No, I didn’t have some ...