The great thing about being an American Jew—apart from knishes, blintzes, and an ancestral connection to Bob Dylan and the Three...

It was a long, slow, gentle pull, barely noticeable, not even stirring any sense of curiosity on my part. It was a slight tug back toward...

I could have submitted what follows to the Arts Fuse, the online arts magazine that pays me money in exchange for my opinions on music....

I graduated college in spring 1985 and naively assumed my diploma would open any corporate office door I chose to enter. By late August,...

Unpleasant though it may be, I ask you to close your eyes and imagine Donald Trump with no clothes on. What do you see? The answer is...

Our text for today is Deuteronomy 16:20: “Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that Adonai your God...

Everybody wants 2020 to end, but no one does anything about it. No one, that is, but us Jews. You see, all the horrible things that have...

My father has been a Mason for my entire life and longer. Actually, he’s a Shriner, which I guess is sort of like the Eagle Scout of...

If you’re like me, you’ll pack a book when you go away for a few days. It could be something you’re in the middle of, or a new book...

When I was about seven or eight years old, I was momentarily separated from my mother on a busy sidewalk. I was very scared. A policeman...

Their first mistake was their worst mistake: They neglected to consider that the earth on which they stood and trod had a soul; they did...

Many years ago, to earn a little extra money I took a job at a convenience store near my apartment at the time, in Lawrence. The gig was...

The world is wide, but I still find it difficult to stay six feet from people. Especially in the supermarket, with everyone focused more...

The first professional football game I ever attended was on September 19, 1971. It was the first game of the first season for the New...

This is a bad time to be dating. Though the weather is getting warmer, the daylight is getting longer, and crocuses – the most determined...

In 1969, King Crimson shocked the music world with its peerless debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King. Yet even before one could...

It's natural on New Year's Eve Day to look backward and forward in the same moment. At this juncture in history, the temporal dividing...

Since 1999, November has been National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), in which participants attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript...

In the fall of 2018, I joined The Malden Writer’s Collaborative, a writer’s group in the city where I live. In addition to workshopping...

Every minute of every day of every week of every year since Trump has been elected has been a tragedy for our nation and our world. Some...