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 thought the reaction to the latest documentary about those leaving Hasidic communities, “One of Us,” would be different. I was wrong.
Maybe I should have been resisting all along.
How a haircut in St. Louis turned into a lesson in the mechanics of bigotry.
We like to think that as long as people are kind, caring, and loving that they are “good people.” But the reality is much more complicated than that. Two stories about how I came to realize this in my own life.
Walking through the Upper East Side shook me deeply. How could some people live so well as I struggle so much?
On learning to embrace change as the only constant in creativity. And life.
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