"A wedding should be a simcha. And if you can’t make one for yourself, the community needs to make one for you."
When you send even one small note of solidarity, when you drop a line to ask how I'm doing and let me know you're thinking of me...it means everything to me.
I am flirting with all kinds of life changes and choices, from differing modes of observance. I am surrounding myself with more and more people who make their own way in this liquid Judaism which doesn't need to be Orthodoxy but still has G0d at the core. What is for me?
Jewish monastic communities could offer warm, exhilarating homes to many who seek a comfortable niche. Let's build them.
How revolutions in the Middle East, TV show adaptations, and more can teach us about how the internet is fundamentally changing the Jewish world.
G-d does not need us to protect His reputation -- nor to use Him to protect ours.
This hakhel year, I want to build a real, in person community like I always imagined.
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.
Somehow, raising money seemed liked a dirty business. From unkempt Rabbis, to overly-excitable telethon hosts, to how-to sessions for spiritual leaders, asking for money seemed disingenuous. And then -- it became my world.
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