Second Thoughts
These cannot both be done effectively at the same time
Second Thoughts
To look with fresh eyes at the familiar and the everyday
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Dear Readers
I'm already imagining the letters we'll get in response to this week's cover story
Menu Pairing
I really struggle with standard kid-friendly weeknight suppers, can you help me out here?
In the Arms of Rabi Shimon
The time: 1953. I am the recently appointed rabbi of a shul in Atlanta. My father, a veteran rabbi in Baltimore, comes to town to visit us. On Shabbos morning, he walks into shul just as we are beginning the davening. I am already sitting at the pulpit. A young man in the congregation, seeing
In the Arms of Rabi Shimon
We’re holding on, Tatteh. Listen to the hespedim, listen to the anguished voices as they praise You
Free Fall
Freefall took me 12 months — and 25 years — to write. Now that it’s over, while other old and new responsibilities bang at my door, I’ll ignore the knocking for a bit and share a short retrospective on life during Freefall
Free Fall
The colonel’s lips were a straight, unsmiling line. “Not German, Freed. They need someone who speaks Yiddish”,
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