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Apr 4, 2023, 7:48 PM

Pesah, Shoah, and Wonderment

Over the past two weeks, I was immersed first in traveling to Poland with my class, and then immediately afterwards, celebrating Pesah with my family. It was perhaps my 15th or 20th trip to Poland, and I wondered if...

Jun 2, 2022, 4:57 PM

A Dream Uninterpreted…

Shavuot is upon us again, with its odors of cheesecake and blintzes. I guess that’s what we get with this most austere of holidays. No sukkah, no Seder. No shaking of the fragrant lulav, no four cups of wine...

May 14, 2021, 12:13 PM

For the Love of Ruth

Ruth is a love story no less compelling or passionate that Shir Hashirim. Their expressions of love are different: Shir Hashirim is a love of hair and eyes, of breasts and thighs. Of throbbing syntax, dreams of intimacy and...

Mar 30, 2021, 6:31 PM

The last morning in the park

This was the last morning in the park. It’s actually quite a small park, just a strip of green next to the road. There are the obligatory monkey bars and horses on coils and a plastic and steel castle...

Jan 26, 2021, 4:54 PM

A Lover’s Quarrel on Tu Bishvat

The first Mishna in the Tractate of Rosh Hashanna tells us: There are four New Years! Among them is the new year for kings, from which we count the years of their rule. There is also a new year...

Aug 4, 2014, 11:05 PM

Circles and Arrows and Tisha B’av

Stephen Jay Gould, that eccentric genius of genus and geology, provided me with a wonderful hiddush (a new insight) as I leafed through the first pages of his book Time as a Cycle, Time as an Arrow. If one...

Jul 14, 2014, 11:57 PM

The Holy Car Parts Store

With a ground incursion into Gaza an ever-more-likely occurrence, and my son serving in Givati, I would like to offer up this story. Though perhaps it may give comfort, it is not a story of comfort. It is a...

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About Me

Reuven is a refugee from Kentucky, where his family lived for 200 years. A teacher at the Alexander Muss High School in Israel, Reuven and family are now rooted in the Land of Israel, living in Shilo.