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They mean it when they say that parenting does not come with an instruction manual. These are the questions that regularly come up for me.
Elul itself requires preparation. Reckoning is a task that doesn't come with an instruction manual. I think this is how I'm going to do it.
Jews, read it: Mastering Life: A Unique Guidebook to Jewish Enlightenment by Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen (Mosaica Press/Feldheim, 2019) is a GREAT new book, absolutely golden for people who need spiritual inspiration. It made me literally want to get up at sunrise, do push-ups, and learn Torah. It’s a call-to-action...
I want to suggest sandals to you, so that you (like me) know what to wear with opaque knee-highs this summer.
If you’re a BT who got/is currently getting slapped in the face by the reality of living in (or even visiting) a charedi community, including but not limited to Crown Heights, these are my insights, learned in the school of hard knocks.
There is a point at which weird turns into nerdy, and nerdy turns into not cool. I have crossed that threshold.
In Jerusalem, it is possible to go to a holy place, just be there, and walk away feeling more centered and whole. New York takes more effort, and these places are my recommendations.
A now-Orthodox Jew revisits her less-than-formative memories of Xmases from her Conservative-movement childhood in Suburban Boston.
An open letter from gluten, if gluten were your Jewish grandma.
Haiku? Shmaiku! What is this fershtunken chazarei? Stop hocking a chainik, Hevria.
