Greg Zeman is a freelance wordsmith and part-time polemicist who occasionally writes in the third person. He lives on the margins of the Jewish Diaspora and suffers from a crippling inability to speak Yiddish.
Faithful illustration of author by Mike Reger
Food March 14, 2014
America's near-total culinary assimilation of the bagel notwithstanding, Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine gets a pretty cold reception outside of the tribe. If the general public treats other ethnic menus like fun, exotic cafes with one or two questionable characters hanging around, they treat Ashkenazi Jewish food like a sketchy dive... Read more
World View October 3, 2013
Dan Wolf, Creative Content Producer for this publication, is one of the artistic minds behind the Stateless Project, which developed a "site specific" performance with 30 high school students from Hamburg, Germany and Koszalin, Poland at the Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany. The premise behind the project is to ‘reclaim... Read more
Arts July 30, 2013
I'm sure being circumcised seemed like a pretty big deal at the time; fifteen years later, I can still faintly feel the edges of a yawning void once occupied by pre-Bar Mitzvah anxiety; the poison oak-choked redwood groves and charmingly dilapidated structures of the now defunct Camp Swig call... Read more