I hesitate to affiliate with any group, but somehow, Jews keep finding and charming me, probably because I'm one of them.
Rachel's assignment? To cover the topic, “Why don’t we talk about Gd enough?”
Group superiority is not my thing. I prefer to see every soul's stunning potential.
That was my life now. Blank. I was diving into the scary unknown and for the first time in my life I was not going to have a say on my future. So I deflated my ego down to 6 words.
I spent a year with Chabad Hasidim in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I exulted, starkly disagreed, and considered glorious possibilities—often in the same moment.
Would I really rather be mistaken for a Hipster than a Hasid?
I worked hard, eschewed fun, focused my soul on my book... and got a publishing nightmare. And the sense that maybe, sometimes, the present transcends the future.
From uncomfortable gatherings to the occasional harmful soul, few of my networking attempts go unpunished.
