CalligraphyMonday, April 03, 2023American Dreams“It’s your job, to make her smile, to bring her happiness, and a girl like this, she can use it. You’ll know what you have to do. It’s not as easy as you think, but it’s also not ...
CalligraphyThursday, October 06, 2022Bonus Round“It’s too good an opportunity to pass up. What Yid can say no on Motzaei Yom Kippur, right?” Rabbi Plaut stopped to bask in his own brilliance
Second DanceTuesday, August 09, 2022Second Dance: Chapter 45Reuven needed someone to ask a real question. Was anyone gutsy enough?
Second DanceTuesday, August 02, 2022Second Dance: Chapter 43“Oh, I don’t know, I imagine you have dreams, like every rosh yeshivah, and maybe this can help you realize them?”
Second DanceTuesday, July 26, 2022Second Dance: Chapter 43Reuven was quiet. He hadn’t asked for the meeting, and he wasn’t going to make it easier for Heshy
Second DanceTuesday, July 19, 2022Second Dance: Chapter 42He squinted in the darkness and stared, unable to process what he was seeing. Reuven? At Heshy Brucker’s tish?
Second DanceTuesday, July 12, 2022Second Dance: Chapter 41This visit to the tent was purely a fact-finding mission — call it due diligence, the way mature, balanced people acted
Second DanceTuesday, July 05, 2022Second Dance: Chapter 40This meeting with Reuven Stagler was his idea, and his brother was there under protest. It was his show, and he would lead it
Second DanceTuesday, June 28, 2022Second Dance: Chapter 39Akiva wanted to say something like, “That sort of cynicism isn’t a great chinuch technique,” but he wouldn’t stoop to that level
Second DanceTuesday, June 21, 2022Second Dance: Chapter 38He would go to Boca, he decided. To anywhere, really. He wouldn’t stick around to see Heshy Brucker win
Second DanceTuesday, June 14, 2022Second Dance: Chapter 37“I’m looking for my son, I just wish I understood him a bit better, like, that I really knew what he’s about”