My mom dreamed of freedom, my dad dreamed of stability. So, they bought a flying horse.
I am breathless, like a five-year-old leaving for Disney in the morning.
“Soon By You” does a great job of playing on otherwise tired Jewish stereotypes like how all women are named “Sarah” and how out of the box it is to be anything other than a rabbi or a lawyer. While it’s easy for us to laugh at the cliches of the Jewish world many of us are immersed in, “Soon By You” really aims to show how painful all of it can be.
I stomped around my apartment for quite awhile recently, saying the bad “f” swear word out loud
I embrace the fabric-layered “baby” Torah, as if pouring some amount of my angst and despair into its compact, but miraculously enduring body. Could it understand?
Did God really answer my daughter's prayer?
Potential experiments are everywhere, but I'm afraid.
