Cut ‘n PasteTuesday, March 14, 2023Words Are Not Enough“Ethel just told me she wants a Jewish burial,” Isaac said breathlessly. “Can you change the will?”
True AccountTuesday, December 13, 2022Finish Line in the Cancer Ward All of it, almost ten years of learning, paled in comparison to the excruciating difficulty of learning the last five dapim
LifeTakesThursday, October 06, 2022The Hakafos KingI hadn’t hit shul for Simchas Torah in who knows how long. I figured let’s go in and see where they’re up to
MusingsTuesday, September 20, 2022The IslandAfter years of facing a closed door, I now stand on the other side
For Keeps: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5783Tuesday, September 20, 2022From the Flames There were thousands of little things, the memorabilia that was important and meaningful to me, even if they weren’t objectively valuable
Theme Section: Wandering JewsTuesday, August 02, 2022Out of the Rubble In this day and age, could war and destruction really upend our lives overnight?
True AccountTuesday, July 19, 2022Where You Need to Be Hashem has a time for everything, and also a place for everything. Including us
WindowsTuesday, July 12, 2022Rabbanit of the Kosel She's a fixture at the Kosel for years and years, as diminutive and as glowing as the first time I met her
My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782Tuesday, May 31, 2022Part of Something Bigger: Be’er HaTorah, Gateshead The boys would go home for Pesach and Succos, and the place lost its energy; the town became a shadow of itself
A Different Counting Shavuos 5782Tuesday, May 31, 2022The Long Summer For a girl who came from drizzly British summers, it seemed like a dream
Cut ‘n PasteTuesday, May 31, 2022Remember UsThrough it all my father remembered his promise, what he’d taken upon himself on that long ago night of mourning on a hilltop