A few years ago, the writer Shalom Auslander was hospitalized with a potentially fatal case of pancreatitis after taking a banned performance-enhancing drug to lose weight. His psychiatrist said he ...

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This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. Shalom Auslander grew up in a ...

Shalom Auslander won acclaim for his short stories and his 2007 memoir "Foreskin's Lament," which took a scathing, but funny look at his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. In "Hope: A Tragedy," the main ...

It’s a shame that the author of Foreskin’s Lament, Shalom Auslander, a fallen Orthodox Jew turned wry humorist, has never been introduced to Paul Fleiss. Fellow hebe, Hollywood pediatrician to the ...

To Shalom Auslander, prolonged exposure to God can – as with the sun – have fatally damaging consequences. In his 2008 memoir, Foreskin’s Lament, Auslander described how it was radiation of the divine ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — Shalom Auslander lives in a bubble, and he likes it that way, thank you very much. On a bitterly cold February afternoon, the creator of the new Showtime series “Happyish” ...

God won't leave Shalom Auslander alone. It doesn't matter that the 37-year-old writer abandoned his Orthodox Jewish roots, or that he goes out of his way to eat nonkosher food — even when it makes him ...

Shalom Auslander’s memoir, “Foreskin’s Lament,” chronicled the author’s shaky departure from his dysfunctional ultra-Orthodox home in Monsey, New York. Readers will recall how Auslander was somehow ...