How inventor and Holocaust survivor, Nathan Zepell, profoundly impacted my life.
I opened my eyes slowly. I realized I was face-down on my bed, and the late afternoon sun poured through...
I recently had a conversation with a friend whose husband is slowly closing the law practice he’s had for thirty...
“The weather is always good for Jewish holidays”, said my mom. She often said it in my childhood, in the...
Today I pray for rage sustained
For the righteous temper
That retches thoughts and prayers
As half-baked answers
Zion’s roads are in mourning, empty of festival pilgrims; all her gates are deserted.Lamentations 1:4 I. January. Upstate New York.The...
Tears will sow fields of teshuvaUntil the water dries upAnd my psalms are naked But the blotched inkStill remembersHow we...
The shards of ice,Swarm in my face,The bone crushing frost tugs,The cold howling on all wavelengths,reaching beneath,Professed layers of warmth....
A lone manin simple pantsand a simple shirtin a quiet room says: We have ruined so much, we could become so...
In a 17-year-old drunken stupor, towards the end of third-period math, I walk around my house, from the backyard to the...
