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Matthue Roth's new picture book is The Gobblings. He also wrote Never Mind the Goldbergs and a bunch of other books without pictures. By day, he writes games for Google. He lives in Brooklyn and keeps a secret diary at matthue.com.
As an Orthodox Jew, it's not that I don't like Jesus. It's just weird that he pops up everywhere.
A layoff happens, and all I can think is, did I put my trust in the wrong person? Was I not watching the road? Who was in the driver's seat all this time?
I'm suspicious of the people on the subway asking for charity, but I try to tell myself what Judaism tells me: It's not my job to question whether or not they deserve it.
These should be my people. I should be one of them.
In a world where no one has a problem saying what they think of the length of your skirt or the style of your hair, but people never just say how awesome it is that we're alive, this feels necessary.
At 25 I'd done enough stupid things to fill a book, but I hadn't quite earned the wisdom to raise them above the level of stupid things.
Alan Jay Sufrin started writing new songs, possibly a side project, possibly the next step in his career -- and then he stopped making music entirely.
One of my friends at work just moved into a new apartment. It's not in a Jewish area, but the landlord is -- you guessed it -- a Hasidic Jew.
Like this post if you've ever had too many thoughts in your head at once. Like it if any of them have ever given you a shiver, or a stomachache, or a physical pain.
