From Hasidic questioners to rebellious nuns and priests, limit-pushers within tight-knit groups have a special camaraderie. I'm jealous.
While in the desert, Moses' periods of seclusion on the mountain were key to his progress as a leader and the transmission of The Torah. Like any introvert, only by entering into a safe, individual space could this have happened.
I had just gotten back to the states from Yeshiva in Israel, and didn’t know what to do with myself.
I had only published a handful controversial articles, but the ones I had published seemed to elicit such huge and negative responses that I wanted out.
The struggle of having opinions and hating politics wholeheartedly at the same time.
I was born to Jewish parents, and that makes me a Jew by anyone's standards, Reform or Orthodox. That means I will always be a minority, an outsider, and anxious about G0d.
Sometimes it's a rainy, rainy day and nothing is going right.
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.
