Zackary Sholem Berger

My work is going all to pieces: pieces of Sutzkever's "Ode to the Dove," that is. Part 1 appeared in   InTranslation , and par...

If social media were integrated into my practice: a wish list. 1. Patients could willingly sign away bits of their confidentiality so they...

It's a book about a steel worker in 1920s Baltimore. In less sure hands it might not have worked out so well. What about this self-publi...

I always thought my medical vocabulary would come in handy somehow... A poem of mine won a contest in the Forward to commemorate the 100th...

In the 14 Adar issue of Simcha Lerner's Machshovos Zoros ("Outside-the-Box Thinking") there is a very interesting essay whic...

In his essay on Jewish identity in Jewish Ideas Daily, Yehuda Mirsky makes the following comment: the language of "Jewish identity...

You've probably heard about glucose metabolism and cell phones . This sentence in the abstract got my attention: [M]etabolism in the r...

In his perfectly reasonable essay about the Internet (a topic crying out for an extended treatment in the New Yorker), Adam Gopnik says B...

Check out my poem Zeneft - and my reading of it - at the literary journal qarrtsiluni , currently featuring its Translation issue.

"I have watched ideals and traditions that I cherish -- a certain sort of liberalism; a certain sort of philosophy; the speaking of Heb...

Are Velveteen Rabbi's "Torah poems" any good? My review gives the answer .

Two translations of mine are featured in the new issue of the journal Eleven Eleven from the California College of the Arts: one of Dvoyre F...

These sentences are the beginning of a famous Yiddish novel. If you guess what I'm translating, you will win a hearty congratulations an...

The Yiddish Book Center ( that Yiddish Book Center) has a blog post up by David Schlitt where he asks the question, "What Yiddish titl...

Yesterday, I spent a fascinating 15 or 20 minutes looking at video of King's famous speech. ("Why is it in black and white?" a...

I'm doing about as well as I'd expect. I'd expect to turn half cartwheels. I'd tear up the floorboards to find more floor...

Setting Out Bei Dao   To TT, on his 24 th birthday In the watch store called The Stars Twelve celestial hours chime Along the cloud...

Well, thanks for all the bioethics and Yiddish and poetry (the Yiddish bioethics poetry is yet to be written), say you, but what about stati...

Someone skeptical about halachah might ask, "Does Jewish law have anything useful to say about a public policy debate as complicated an...

Now, instead of thinking that the concern for cancer risk from cell phones is BS, I think the concerns are exaggerated and misplaced. Let me...