I'm a convert who came to Judaism later in life, so I didn't have a Bat Mitzvah ceremony at all. But this month I am twelve (times six)
How much of yourself would you surrender to be a part of something bigger?
There are certainly those who would say my life began a new chapter this past Tuesday. At age twenty-four I...
The other half of the story and how much we still don't know.
Apparently humans are the only animals that plan ahead for the future. At least that’s been the conventional belief. Recent...
“Are you here to see the Rebbe?” someone asks, a guy I haven't seen in maybe a decade, shouting over five or six heads in the two or three feet of space between us.
A former Buddhist monk got me thinking that time is a horrifying illusion that we can transcend.
How do we go on living when everything feels like it's falling apart?
I lowered the criteria for success. A lot. Try it!
People will pretend like they are happy for you, but when you are twenty-two, sometimes people will look at you as if you have thrown your whole life away. How dare you try to balance a family and yourself? Why is “me” not a part of my family?
