Israeli Fiction: ‘Form 630’–an excerpt from the novel “Wild North”

The schlemiel–that bumbling, anxious, and cosmically inept antihero of much American Jewish literature–rarely finds his…

Jewcy Reader Challenge: Kevin Powell’s Bacon Jokes Edition

This week’s “D’oh!” moment comes courtesy of former Real World star and straight- outta-Brooklyn’s-10th-Congressional-District US…

The New Jew Canon: One Minute to Midnight & Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

The New Jew Canon is a long-term project that seeks to canonize essential Jewish (and…

Sometimes Overwhelming

"Arlene Gottfried is a photographer with an eye and a mind on the city streets-an…

POEM: Prayers to John Grisham

                On this flight to Pittsburgh the man…

A Conversation with The Silver Jews Front Man

David Berman is the front man and only constant member in the (formerly) ever-changing lineup…

Shia’s Not So Shy About the Liquor

Shia LaBeouf wants equal time. How else do you explain his latest in a series…

The New Jew Canon: The Women’s Bible Commentary, Man’s Search for Meaning, Beginning Anew

  The New Jew Canon is a long-term project that seeks to canonize essential Jewish…