Nava Anne Grant

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Apr 10, 2025, 1:56 PM

Mondrian & Metzarim

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Once in an art history class, we were learning about the influential 20th-century Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. A founder of the De Stijl movement, Mondrian is best known for his ubiquitous paintings in which black lines cut across white...

Sep 14, 2023, 8:46 PM

Jumping Salmon and Rosh Hashanah

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During Elul, I finally decided to read Rabbi Alan Lew’s famous book This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared. This Is Real holds a sort of cult-classic status in many liberal Jewish circles as the one book you...

Mar 11, 2023, 6:25 AM

The Process Is the Product

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This week’s parsha has me thinking about a certain saying from the corporate world: The process is the product. The idea behind this tagline is that to be successful, you can’t simply think about your intended outcome. Instead, you...

May 11, 2022, 7:41 AM

Religious Jews shouldn’t applaud Roe’s demise

The US Supreme Court. (via Twitter)

Justice Alito and Rabbi Shafran have the same male privilege: relating to abortion theoretically. They should leave it to the women who must be practical

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Nava lives and works in New York City. She blogs on Substack at First Things First.