How a Café Conversation in Ohio Led to an Israeli Bestseller
One November day in Ohio, I sat in a café with a friend, drinking tea while snow fell outside. She couldn’t read my books because she doesn’t read Hebrew, only […]
November 25, 2025
November 18, 2025
Read Chapter 3 of ADAM: The ADAM Project (A Jewish Fantasy Series)
A haunting voice, a forgotten legacy, and a golem waiting to wake. Welcome to ADAM, a bi-weekly serialized historical fantasy rooted in Jewish mysticism and folklore. Each installment reveals a […]
November 4, 2025
Chapter 2 of ADAM: The Witch of Döbling (A Jewish Fantasy Series)
A haunting voice, a forgotten legacy, and a golem waiting to wake. Welcome to ADAM, a bi-weekly serialized historical fantasy rooted in Jewish mysticism and folklore. Each installment reveals a […]
October 7, 2025
Start Reading ADAM: A Serialized Historical Fantasy Inspired by Jewish Folklore
A haunting voice, a forgotten legacy, and a golem waiting to wake. Welcome to ADAM, a bi-weekly serialized historical fantasy rooted in Jewish mysticism and folklore. Each installment reveals a new […]
October 3, 2025
Living Jewishly Off the Beaten Path: Poet Dick Westheimer’s Life in Clermont County
In Clermont County, right outside of the 275 loop, just three Jewish families live among the farms or along the Ohio River in an area where few Jewish people have […]
September 30, 2025
From Prague to Palestine to 2049: A New Jewish Fiction Series You’ll Read Obsessively
For over a year now, I’ve been working on a manuscript, and I’m honored to share some news! Beginning this October, I will be publishing the book in serial installments […]
July 21, 2025
Archie Rand’s The Seventeen: Iron Flock Exhibit at the Skirball Museum Cincinnati
The Exhibit The Skirball Museum is currently hosting an exhibit by Jewish artist Archie Rand, now through July 31. Titled “The Seventeen: Iron Flock,” it includes 17 paintings of empowered […]
July 16, 2025
A New Documentary About Marlee Matlin Is A Revealing Portrait Of The Deaf Actress, Activist
Early in Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, director Shoshannah Stern gives Marlee Matlin the copy someone at Paramount wrote for the movie Children Of A Lesser God. Of her Deaf […]
May 12, 2025
The Jewish Jam Band Soul
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 […]
March 15, 2025
ROCK ART! An Exploration of the Art & Artifacts of Rockdale Temple
K.K. Bene Israel/Rockdale Temple is pleased to announce RockArt! on Tuesday, April 1 at 7:30pm, beginning in the Heldman Social Hall. Led by congregant Abby Schwartz, former director and curator […]