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.
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.
Let me walk around with a broken heart in the middle of this beautiful, August summer day. Let me have my moment.
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.
A message to the good people of the world: you may be afraid to take a stand, but history has put you in a place where you no longer have an option.
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