June 25, 2025
Reformed is a gem of a show currently streaming on HBO Max. Released in March from France, it follows the life of a 28-year-old French Libéral (aka Reform) rabbi named […]
June 23, 2025
We’re so happy to share that Cincy Jewfolk’s first annual live storytelling show, Cincy Jewfolk: Stories from the Tribe, will be on November 10th, 2025 and submissions are now open! […]
June 17, 2025
On the evening of Tuesday, June 10, I sat behind one of three microphones, next to my friend and cohost Andrea Beck, prepared to kibbitz. The art of kibbitzing is […]
May 12, 2025
Drawing from my experience leading my two-week class with ish Cincinnati about the intersection of Phish and modern Jewish practices, as well as attending over a dozen Phish shows I’ve […]
May 2, 2025
Rabbi, Sometimes we hear grumblings about how Jews control Hollywood and the media. It does feel like there are a lot of Jews in movies and television. Why does this […]
May 1, 2025
Who was Andy Kaufman? A nice Jewish boy from Long Island who didn’t smoke or drink and practiced Transcendental Meditation? A nonsensical man-child? An angry jerk who pushed the limits […]
April 26, 2025
Ever since October 7, we Jews, around the world, are finding ourselves in a quandary of opposites. Every Shabbat, every holiday, every birthday, anniversary, or other joyful celebration is offset […]
April 25, 2025
Do you have a question you’d like answered? Submit it anonymously here! Rabbi, I recently attended my congregation’s Torah Study, where we were reading from the book of Leviticus. It seemed […]
April 23, 2025
The name Art Spiegelman is guaranteed to evoke one word for anyone familiar with the artist: Maus. His Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel (to date, the only one to be so […]
March 30, 2025
On Monday, I went to see the film, No Other Land. As I left the theater, I turned on the news and heard that the film’s creator, Hamdan Ballal, had […]