We were brought up on stories about the beautiful people. The better people. The people who rule over us.
No more.
A blog about feelings - Ended in 2019
We were brought up on stories about the beautiful people. The better people. The people who rule over us.
No more.
How blaming my wife, and her refusal to blame me back, taught me what it means to love someone. Including myself.
Why we’ve got “Don’t confuse the Jews with Judaism” all wrong.
A story about a kingdom going mad, and the painful choice the leaders had to make. And what this all means in a country where it often seems we are constantly trying to hold onto our sanity.
I started off angry at both sides. But the more I spoke with them, the more complicated the story became.
I thought the reaction to the latest documentary about those leaving Hasidic communities, “One of Us,” would be different. I was wrong.
We couldn’t complain in quiet anymore. We had to do what the Torah calls us to do: act.
How our culture chooses to discuss sexual assault says a lot more about why it happens than specific incidents.
Maybe I should have been resisting all along.
The debate swirling in the Jewish world over the blame for Charlottesville is not normal. And it’s one that has affected the Jewish psyche far more than most of us realize.
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