A small fraction of those who excel in sports or the arts in high school and college become professionals in those fields. Fewer still...

Truth is the first casualty of war, said the Greek dramatist Aeschylus. There is something about war that lends itself to euphemism,...

I bet you've been wondering about my thoughts on the New England Patriots. Around here, everyone says the sky is falling. They want to...

A number of years ago, while a member of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, I helped to write the temple’s Purim spiels. (For those not in...

I saw the band "Yes"in concert last night. The quotes are because with zero original members, this group of musicians is essentially a...

On Shabbat, it is said, we receive an extra soul and when the Sabbath departs, we feel depleted and turn to the spices of Havdalah to...

When 9/11 happened, I was scared. For me, my children, my family. I felt that that could have happened anywhere, at any time, to anyone....

Oh wouldst that it could be true. That one man, a simpleton, a Gump for the heart, could preach such old-time values as kindness,...

By Jason M. Rubin “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long….” Exodus 20:12 I. Father Time is not to be trifled...

I’ve told this story before but the only reason I’ve written four novels (one yet to be published) to this day is because I was dared to...

As a Jew born of parents who had no desire to appear in any way assimilative to the larger Christian culture in America, I was disabused...

Aside from the fact that my health insurance is going up $120 per paycheck next week, I’m mostly okay with not winning the recent $2...

I am way too blessed, and most of my blessings, it seems to me, are undeserved. Unless being born a White male in a Blue state in America...

And the Lord did make a sign for Moses, that he would go to Mount Sinai, and climb the mountain, whereupon he witnessed a bush on fire...

It was Sunday, February 3, 2002, twenty years ago almost to the day. It wasn’t an ordinary Sunday, it was Super Bowl Sunday. And it...

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...