June 5, 2013
2:20 pm

A letter in the scroll

Last Shabbat, time stood still. A Torah scroll brought everything to a screeching halt. No, I didn’t make a sighting of the Women of the Wall parading a Torah scroll......

April 23, 2013
1:00 pm

A Boston Marathon Meditation

He was eight. He will never see nine. I didn’t know him. Yet his memory haunts me. Years before I became an Israeli, I was a Bostonian. Not born......

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April 1, 2013
10:10 pm

Intermarried rabbis? Please!

Quite the tempest in the teapot has been brewing as of late at The Times of Israel. It all began with Rabbi Mark Miller's quite sensible criticism......

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March 13, 2013
7:46 pm

What they didn’t tell us when we left Egypt

My wife is staring into an oven and I'm tearing paper towels for her. It's that time of year again. You know - the season of our freedom, the......

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February 19, 2013
1:07 pm

What would Hitler do?

Now that I have your attention, I ought to explain myself. I’m not a fan of over-the-top titles. But in this case, “What would Hitler do?” is precisely the......

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February 6, 2013
1:56 pm

Your life’s purpose in 20 seconds

"Please don't tell me you're marrying someone who's not Jewish. Because I've already had two of those this week." And so began my meeting with the......

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January 24, 2013
2:30 pm

Kaddish for Bruce

On the evening of January 12, Facebook delivered the bad news. These days, we can see virtually anything on Facebook - from a friend's photo of his......

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January 17, 2013
8:04 am

In a woman’s voice

In my first blog post for The Times of Israel, I said it was time for a different Jewish conversation, one that takes a critical look at intermarriage, conversion,......

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January 9, 2013
10:14 pm

A response to Dov Lipman: Shas racism – the tip of the iceberg

Like Rabbi Dov Lipman, I too “am embarrassed with my country” – but for very different reasons. Rabbi Lipman’s recent blog post for The Times of Israel, ...

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January 3, 2013
3:35 pm

Real parents, real children

"Who are her real parents?" I bristle every time I hear it. The questioner is usually well-meaning and benignly unaware of his faux pas. I respond with "We are her real parents.......

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January 1, 2013
12:03 pm

The last rabbi of Nuremberg

The story begins in Nuremberg, Germany and Satu Mare, Romania, wends its way across Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald, and coalesces in the sleepy upstate New York town......

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December 23, 2012
12:36 pm

How Jews celebrate Christmas

“How do Jews celebrate Christmas?” “What was that?” I must have misunderstood. “How do Jews celebrate Christmas?” he repeated, a bit more insistently this time. Although my clarinet playing days are long......

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December 18, 2012
10:58 pm

On ketchup and intermarriage – someone’s not gonna like this

How to begin my inaugural post? I will begin by dating myself. Those of us old enough to remember the Reagan years may still chuckle over the "ketchup is a......

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