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Jan 7, 2022, 8:43 AM
Is emotional realness the solution to abuse?
While reading about the Chaim Walder suicide, I was struck by conversations about what to do with his books. Burn them? Throw them away? Keep them? I scanned my book collection, and realized that I don’t own any Chaim Walder...
Jun 24, 2021, 10:20 AM
The Miracle
“That was the best parenting I’ve ever seen,” someone commented to me in the library last week. Despite several warnings to the contrary, my son had run across the carpeted floor of our library to the children’s books. I...
Apr 8, 2021, 10:23 AM
The meaning of ‘never again’ that you never noticed
What does the Holocaust mean? How could it have happened? These questions have been asked so many times they are almost cliché. We ask them because we feel powerless when we are faced with it. We have no answers. Yet while...
Jun 3, 2020, 11:44 PM
How the Nazir checked my outrage at rioters
When I first got the message about curfew and began to see the news coming in about the riots, I had a pretty visceral reaction. People are doing WHAT?? I thought. We watched footage of teenagers banging down plywood...
Jan 16, 2020, 8:28 AM
Beyond the Daf: Why Learning on Your Own Is Not Enough
Last Sunday, thousands of Jews celebrated the Siyum Hashas – completing the Talmud, a task accomplished by studying one page of Talmud every day for seven years. Some of us have heard stories of non-Jews who were deeply impressed...
Jul 20, 2018, 7:06 AM
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Speaking to our children about Tisha B’av
My Duplo-loving son knows what it means to build, and he understood the destruction of God's house immediately
Jun 3, 2018, 8:58 PM
Should Bloggers Have Tzara’as?
When I first started college, I had spent that previous two years being very vigilant about not saying lashon hara. When you don’t speak lashon hara, it generally avoids you. And when you are part of a community that...
May 17, 2018, 7:49 AM
Does it really matter what you believe?
In my last post, I wrote about the importance of not getting too stuck in the question of “Can I prove it?” or “How do I know?” when making a decision about religious practice and belief. That post was...
May 9, 2018, 2:29 AM
Frum to Frei — The “Can I prove it?” Problem
How do people decide what to believe religiously? Some people decide based on what “feels right” – either based on their experiences as a child, or after exposure later on. Some people decide based on rational considerations. For many,...
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Emunah Fialkoff is a writing trainer at Worktalk Communications. She is keenly interested in the intersection between religious life and mental health.