Baruch Dayan Ha-Emet

Much love and comfort to everyone impacted by the shooting in Virginia yesterday. What is wrong with America? Really. These shootings–and their frequency over the years–are not the sign of a healthy society. I remember that Julie Brown song, “The...

For Shame

Ynet reports, A third of Holocaust survivors living in Israel are poor, the Holocaust Survivors’ Welfare Fund reported this week. According to the fund, some 80,000 of the 260,000 survivors in the country live under the poverty line. In addition to their grim...

A Friendly Reminder

Dear God, We stopped praying for rain almost two weeks ago. Love, adoration and worship as always, D.

Being Edited Is Good Practice for Being Alive

I’ve started getting into book revisions this week, and it’s an interesting process. Given that I worked as a freelance writer before rabbinical school, I’ve had the chance to be edited a lot. It can be challenging when the editor and I have...

Transference

I asked the greengrocer how much longer artichoke season was, and he said, “Another week or two. Well, longer, but they won’t be as tasty as these.” I knew it. I knew it, the moment the words came out of his mouth, that “these” was...