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I've never seen internal conflict look so startling and beautiful.

HBO has a wonderful new documentary out called Autism: The Musical about, yes, a group of autistic kids working together in a theater group. It chronicles a few kids, as well as their parents and their struggles and triumphs. It's heartbreaking and moving and really...

One of the best articles in the current issue of Bitch is about the way the NYT Book Review handles titles with explicitly feminist content--and, most notably, who they tap to review such books. I've seen this happen a few times (including with friends' books), and...

Hag Purim Sameach!! Blessed Good Friday! Happy Persian New Year (Nawruz)! Joyous Mawlid el-Nabi! Most excellent Magha Puja Day! Fabulous Holi! Enjoy Birth of Mahavira Day! Rock on Festival of Naw-Ruz! Happy Spring Equinox! Today is, indeed, a very busy day for us...

Last night I had the great pleasure of seeing my dear friend Andrea Hodos do her thing. She has a dance midrash company called Moving Torah, and she's been the artist-in-residence at Hebrew Union College (HUC) this past fall. Last night, she and her students performed...

But who's counting?

My original: "I'd bless and place the second piece just above the hairline on my head and utter a word of praise to God." Their change: "I'd bless and place the second piece just above the hairline on my forehead and utter a word of praise to God." No! There will be...

Someone photoshopped Garfield the cat out of his eponymous comic strip. The results are a little bit troubling: Check out a whole pile of Sunday Comics of the Absurd here.