Simcha Weinstein is an award-winning author, whose latest book is Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the 21st century (Barricade Books: 2008) is out now. He also chairs the Religious Affairs Committee at Pratt Institute in New York. Simcha serves as rabbi to Long Island College Hospital.

	December 1st, 2010 No Gelt, No Glory Getting your spin on for Chanukah Welcome to Extreme Sports: Jewish Style. Leave the suicidal snowboarding to the kids; as a rabbi, I'm more of a dreidel blackbelt. While it isn't ...
	September 24th, 2010 Crying Fowl Chickens, kaparot and Gaga Amongst the harder Jewish traditions to explain to Jews and non-Jews alike is kaparot. This symbolic “atonement” rite, conducted in preparation for Yom Kippur, involves ...
	June 11th, 2010 Assailing and Defending Helen Thomas Two writers present two different sides The People vs. Helen Thomas by Rabbi Simcha Weinstein The ...
	May 14th, 2010 Censoring South Park Defending the right to offend us On April 14, Comedy Central's "South Park" celebrated its 200th episode of "take no prisoners" animated comedy by dressing up the Prophet Mohammed in ...
	April 23rd, 2010 Kick-Tuchas Real life super heroes on the streets of NYC They call me the "Comic Book Rabbi." Given the chance to choose my own "superhero" nickname, I'd have picked something more dynamic, like "Super Jew" ...
	January 19th, 2010 Family Goy This absurd but brutally honest animated comedy pushes the limits A ventriloquist's cartoonish dummy can vocalize insults that would earn the ventriloquist himself a punch in the nose. In much the same way, on "harmless ...
	September 17th, 2009 The Creation Controversy One Rabbi’s Rosh Hashanah reflection on Evolution Have you heard the one about the time the monkey escaped from the zoo? The zookeeper looked high and low, and after a long search, ...
	August 13th, 2009 Kill Adolf Inglorious Basterds and the new wave of "tough Jews" in movies Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you hadn't taken that job, or gone to that school, or moved to that neighborhood? In ...
	July 10th, 2009 Is Bruno Good for the Jews? The Borat star once again pushes the limits of comedy (and comfort) “What’s up?” you ask. For one thing, the new movie, Brüno. The swishy, semi-fascist fashionista Brüno is the imaginary Austrian TV personality created by the very ...
	June 24th, 2009 A Comedy of Biblical Proportions Year One and the dawning of a new age in Jewish comedy Sunday school just got a lot more interesting. The new movie Year One is an Old Testament version of the classic Monty Python comedy The ...