On Friday, Israel’s annual gay pride celebration took over the streets of Tel Aviv, spilling from the sidewalks to the streets to the beaches. Israelis and foreigners alike, who now come from...
Emily Lindin is a blogger who has been posting her 6th grade diary entries online every day. A couple of months into the entries, her 11-year-old self lies on her parents’ bed and tries to think of...
Among the world's Jews, a gender war looms at Judaism’s holiest site. The Women of the Wall are a group of Jewish women who have been holding monthly services at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in...
Sometimes, it takes a community to build a book. Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth’s What Makes A Baby started as the little Kickstarter project that could, and bloomed into something much larger as...
Oh, gentle readers, do let’s discuss Clara the Impossible Girl and the thrilling or perhap insipid conclusion of the seventh season, which just aired on televisions ‘round the world. We were...
He watches the winking green light. He is blissfully unaware that it is a bilious green, the green of envy, an old money Cyclops that never sleeps. This light will never be extinguished, never be...
Every now and then, I like to indulge myself with fantasies of storylines that could be, if only I could trust television to do them right. Those dreams loom especially large in the wake of finale...
I love Mother’s Day and I know that Mother’s Day loves me right back—the proof is in the three bunches of flowers before me. Much like their senders used to do, each is jostling for its...
Christopher Guest is finally (and delightfully) back behind the camera with Family Tree, a new half-hour single-camera comedy on HBO co-created with Jim Piddock. The production is a bit of a...
Try this exercise: What’s the last thing your mother said to you? If you can’t remember, you’ve got company: I failed that exercise myself. The power of a mother's voice is undeniable; it comes...