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I knew that according to the rules, she wasn’t supposed to be talking with me at all, since I’d left the kehillah

All his friends were from before, old friends from yeshivah who’d known him before he’d been swallowed up, dismantled, and reassembled as a Halb

There’s nothing wrong with adding a sushi bar, and other things, but you do realize that our hottest menu items were traditional, old-fashioned foods

She looked so beautiful when she smiled like that. With an actual sparkle in her eyes. Why didn’t she do so more often?

In the center is Jerusalem, with a verse from Psalms: “Joy of the world.” He takes a breath. It is exquisite

“My children will not go to school. We don’t need school,” he kept saying. “The white man has nothing to teach us”