Like Harry Potter, he showed us that we were special, not because we were born with this secret legacy, being Jewish, but because of what we chose to do with it.
I don't want to be ashamed of anything I write. But I also don't want to write anything I'd be ashamed of, and I am.
A South Beach story about a desperate old man with a desperate plan who meets the perfect candidate to make everything alright.
On the magical life a baal teshuva leads, and why they need to not forget the value of their old ones. And why, often, they need to go back.
Am I an artist trying to work in religious themes, or am I a religious person trying to make art? Thoughts on a decade of Matisyahu and knowing oneself.
It was funny, it was tricky, but there was also wisdom in there. I feel like that day, I learned something about being Orthodox, something important and fundamental, that I hadn't ever known before.
We were once revolutionaries. But somewhere along the road, we became conformists. Here's why and what we can do to change the world in the way we hoped.
Our kids ask us, "Who were you guys?" Rough drafts. Cross outs. Do overs. Perennial second chances. Answers may vary.
The reasons for which I’d grown my beard had become less relevant. . .That I had come to know beautiful holy Yidden with and without beards seemed more relevant to me.
This Elul is testing my belief that "women's work" actually counts as avodas Hashem. Now I have to really believe in the holiness of raising a baby.