I had never heard about Faigy Mayer until today. But her suicide brought me hurtling back into what these days are supposed to be about, and a community we often ignore.
Crown Heights has an eruv. You might disapprove. But threatening to tear it down is a jerky, crappy move.
I am but one of the legions of indigenous people wrested of our mother-tongues, mouths colonized. I want my words back.
