Asbell Center for Jewish Life. A native New Yorker, he has moonlighted for the last 12 years as theater columnist for the New York Jewish Week, the largest-circulation Jewish newspaper in the nation. His articles on Jewish culture have also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Moment, Hadassah, and many other newspapers and magazines. His first book, �In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture� dealt with the reflection of second generation Jewish life in vaudeville, theater and film. He is currently finishing an illustrated history of the deli, �Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the New York Jewish Delicatessen.�