College was the grand disappointment. It was the kidnapping of my inner self, an abrupt shaking of everything I held dear, a promise of salvation that was horribly forgotten.
For me, it's Haman. It's not as awkward as it seems, I promise.
Sometimes I don't want to explain myself. I usually don't get it either.
A call to arms for Religious Women: Sanctify the tensions!
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?
Live from the Hevria Creative Farbrengen, a collaboration with the amazing supernova of talent and good vibes, rockstar Eli Schwebel.
It's not that your outcries, your war of words, your holiday visits and your donations do not mean the world to us. It means everything. And yet – it cannot be everything. Not this time around.
Read the origin story of Rachel's new album, The Upward Spiral, a true Hevria original, and why it took a lot of bravery and love to get her where she is today.
G-d does not need us to protect His reputation -- nor to use Him to protect ours.
It is Elul, that month for soul searching and review of one’s spiritual progress. I wasn't feeling it. At. All.