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High Holidays for the Secular/Cultural/Spiritual but not Religious/ Jew-ish Jew

To say this year will be a different way to mark the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur ...

Extremism Works Both Ways

I spend most of my days and nights highlighting problem areas in Orthodox communities as well as viable solutions, with ...

OAD: On Another Derech

I recently heard Rabbi Joseph Telushkin speak about the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe believed that words mattered so much that ...

When You’re The First Jewish Friend

“You were my first Jew, you know,” a friend reminded me the other day.What she meant was, I’m the first ...

Never Talk About These 2 Things at Your Dinner Table?

When I was growing up the common wisdom was, if possible, to avoid conversations of religion and politics around the dinner ...

The Memorial

I recently attended my friend’s father’s memorial. It was held at the Faculty House of Columbia University in a perfectly ...

Moses and Hubris

There’s a great Seinfeld episode–and one I relate to–in which George Constanza worries that he must have cancer because his life ...