Zackary Sholem Berger

I locked my friends in a cabin and they love each other now. Two sides of distress: bloody sidewalk, topiary median. I embrace their commoti...

Paris is beautiful and the Parisians' new Yiddish journal, Gilgulim , no less so. I'm honored to be represented .

My friend Elinor (writer on baseball and cars and a powerhouse bal-tekiah) revs the engine on her new site .

On the other hand, there is now definitely a culture (measured by off-hand comments by residents, facial expressions assumed when discussing...

It's not a technological imperative that drives the resuscitation of so many patients who (if you had asked them while they were of soun...

Laszewski says it again : I worry that both [Clinton and Obama] have cost containment strategies that would do little more then dent the c...

My daughter and I had a fight last night (she's four; it happens) and we made up with me singing songs to her. The songs were in Yiddish...

Yugntruf gets its yugnt back . (Hat tip: Byuralistke .)

The important lesson to be drawn from studies of medical-psychiatric comorbidity is that distress and disease both produce physical symptoms...

From the directions to an IRB form I'm filling out: Describe potential benefit(s), if any, for subjects participating in the research. ...

Regret slips its noose around the neck. Remorse sinks its tooth into the corpse. - Samuel Menashe There I was today (by now yesterday) at Ri...

Obama has been anointed the Cool Candidate on the strength of his spellbinding stemwindery. I feel my inborn contrariness (rhymes with orner...

Speaking of Kathleen Graber , she has a great poem in the newest issue of the New Yorker.

Every biting winter was fall's soft cliché, every aperçu was a drunken bawl. The queer tongue of our ancestors is enlivened by the dead ...

Kathleen Graber : thoughtful, careful, with an intermittently epic reach, sometimes too grounded. I bought her book because I wanted to get ...

The comment from "Hashem is Magic" got me thinking. Is it true that the injunction against "letting the name [of other gods] ...

The Forward's Allan Nadler favors us with a biting overview of the most decadent of history's rebbes . (Note that not all rebbes are...

There are Jews in this world who are punctilious about not mentioning the names of others' (putative) gods. The verse [Exodus 23:13] th...

You'd think that would be the title of an easily available book, right? But it isn't I thought it isn't. There's the Medica...

Mikhail Krutikov in the Forverts : The time when Jews in America felt unsure of themselves is probably over, and it's no longer necessa...