This piece is part of the series, “Readers Take Over Hevria”. The topic assigned to me: “People who are on...
Dear religious people, if you’re reading this, it may already be too late. Dear anti-religious people, if you’re reading this, it may already be too late. But let me share something with you both.
Can "Orthodox Judaism" ever be "unconventional"?
And then something happened. Something that had never happened on any of those other shidduch dates I had excruciatingly gone on.
I spent a year with Chabad Hasidim in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I exulted, starkly disagreed, and considered glorious possibilities—often in the same moment.
There is no magic bullet for making Jewish education universally available and affordable, but prioritizing it for our kids and ourselves is vital for our tradition.
Too often, we wait quietly on the sidelines as injustice happens all around us. The people who act first, no matter how flawed, deserve our support.
It may seem twisted to have a love affair with death. People are afraid to die yet afraid to live. You cannot deal with your pain or with fear unless you're willing to live through it and I've experienced the contractions of giving birth to happiness in the face of agony.
If we don't talk about this stuff, who will?
