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It does no harm — in these pre-Tishah B’Av days — to keep both Tehillim 90 and, l’havdil, Donne’s question in the back of the mind

I get it. Your son has a chance for the summer of a lifetime. But what about mine, left all alone without a single friend in camp?

“I never met a rav who has a son in the Israeli army,” he said. And then he asked, “Are you proud of what he is doing?”

I’m still tied to a tradition stemming all the way back to the First Temple

As I was writing a memoir, I gained a new emotional perspective on my family, and especially on my father

Clothes and head coverings define us, and clothes and head coverings divide us