"Please let me write something worthy, something weighty, or winged....or whatever You want...just bring it! Because we need it...bad, G-d!"
I didn’t bring it up with him directly, but I spoke to others about my concerns about his beard. The lack thereof. I was afraid that it meant that he accepted the army’s dress standards over our religious ones, allowing a foreign body to dictate his religious choices. My point of reference for that was my having given up playing music on Shabbos, despite that being antithetical to the standards of practicing and performing in the music world. Did that therefore mean that we didn’t share some important values, ones that would affect our relationship in the long term?
I’m a comedy, fantasy and philosophy writer. I feel like the writings of the Ari and the Zohar have something deep to tell me about who I am.
Who are "my people"?
I was 4 years old when I asked my dad about the oiled African American muscle men in majestic flexed poses, “Why is he brown?” That was when I first realized there could be offense attached to skin color.
On December 28th, 1895 the Lumiere Brothers famously exhibited motion pictures to a paying audience for the first time. They...
When people tell me I'm 'out of the box', I'm not sure whether or not it's a compliment.
I chose this happy path that I'm on. Not the cancer. Life. I want to spread it around like cancer spreads.
I make sauerkraut, folk art and babies. The babies are my best work to date. I make connections... with people, words, spirit and with music.
Seven years later I could tell you that I’ve found the same venue for joy within observant Judaism, but I haven’t.
