Author: Jay Deitcher

Wrote what may be my favorite essay yet in Time, in which I contemplate what the loss of Hooters says about the meaning of life. Check it out here.

My kids spend months each year designing characters for me to tattoo into my skin, and I love getting to look down and see their creations dancing around my forearm. I even came up with a name for it: tattoodles. My first in GQ. Check it out here:

My ode to Heeb and JDub, two early aughts initiatives that shaped my identity. Crazy the influence Joshua Venture had. Today, my kids are growing up on BimBam, and I’m here, a proud Heeb sculpting words into hip hop/punk journalism. My latest for eJewishPhilanthropy.

Religious leaders have felt themselves growing apart from their congregants as ‘toxic polarization’ swells in the US. My latest for the Jewish Chronicle.

Love my new essay in Salon about giving up action figures at 43. Check it out here.

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He helped create the web-slinging hero in his own image — but who was the man behind the mask? I cannot believe I got to write this for Rolling Stone! Such a dream piece. I spoke with the creators who shaped me. Check it out here:

Read my latest for eJewishPhilanthropy about how little the term Evidence Based means, and how it’s misused by different nonprofits. Check it out here.

For many of us wrestling-loving Jews who came up watching WWF in the 90s, Barry Horowitz embodied how others viewed us and how we often viewed ourselves. He took such pride in his identity in a sport where others hid it. I got to spotlight the legend for Tablet Mag. Read it here.

This is something that used to worry me a lot. How do we parent without passing on our mistakes? A few years into the journey, I don’t worry about it so much. Read my latest for Vox here.

Six years ago on the Jewish calendar, I remarried my boo after I nearly destroyed our first wedding. This is the story about how I learned to be a better partner, one day at a time. Read the story at Vox.com.