February 12, 2025
When my uncle was a teenager, he became enthralled by Japanese culture. Over the decades that followed, he became fluent in Japanese, practiced the Japanese art of Kendo, and married […]
January 15, 2025
The words of the High Holy Day prayer Unatanah Tokef felt uncomfortably poignant last week while Cincinnati was enduring a once-in-a-generation snowstorm and California was inundated with devastating fires. Many […]
January 1, 2025
In November 2019, New Zealand politician Chlöe Swarbrick was speaking about climate change legislation when an older colleague interrupted her. She responded, “Ok, boomer,” and the internet fell in love. […]
November 25, 2024
In 1990, my father had a decision to make. He was going to venture into a new industry and had to decide which one made the most sense for him. […]
November 1, 2024
“What holiday is coming up next?” This can be a dangerous question in Progressive Jewish spaces. Because inevitably, depending on the season, a kid will raise their hand and say […]
October 24, 2024
To most of the world, the date is the October 7. To me it will always be Simchat Torah. The memory of the juxtaposition of the joyful singing and dancing […]
October 9, 2024
The thing about honey is, it isn’t simple like sugar. Cultivating sugar cane requires a great deal of effort, tending to the fields in blazing heat, processing and extracting the […]
October 7, 2024
A visitor (of which there are very few these days) might comment on how relatively normal life looks in Israel, even after a year of war. The beaches are full […]
September 11, 2024
By the second week of September, most college students have started to get settled into their dorms, classes, and new routines. It is an exciting, discombobulating experience, especially for Freshmen […]
August 24, 2024
Are you as exhausted from talking about politics as I am? Well, that isn’t exactly right. Let me rephrase: are you as exhausted from talking about these campaigns as I […]