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Jun 7, 2022, 7:15 AM

Hosea: Giving Birth to your Parents

I am my mother, I am my father. As I write this, I am on a flight from Berlin to New York. I almost missed my flight this morning. I don’t eat airplane food, so before leaving my apartment I...

May 20, 2022, 3:22 PM

Haftarah BeHar: Why Judaism and Apple are wise – if boring – investments

I was late to the party, and it wasn’t until 2015 that I bought about five or 10 shares of Apple stock. In the beginning of the new millennium, Apple experienced a rise in wealth, power, and stardom which...

May 13, 2022, 5:45 PM

Parsha Emor: How Tel Aviv Fashion is Priestly

Tel Aviv is a city known for many things—beaches, clubs, food, art, and coffee. It is also considered one of the best cities in the world for fashion trends. If you look around in Tel Aviv, you will see...

Apr 15, 2022, 5:14 PM

Acharei Mot: How the German-Jews became German

Life Tip #29 - "Grow Some Legs" - Ezekiel 22 A few weeks ago, I was at a Shabbat dinner at a Chabad for students in Berlin. The rabbi is 30 years old and originally comes from Paris. Looking at...

Jan 14, 2022, 1:24 PM

Beschalach: Kierkegaard’s Irony and the First Jewish Joke

In Season 7 of the television series The Simpsons — perhaps you’ve heard of it — there is an episode entitled “Homerpalooza.” In this episode, Homer Simpson becomes famous for his beer belly. Because of his beer belly, he...

Jan 14, 2022, 10:57 AM

Haftarah Beschalach: Drink Ancient Milk

What is the color of milk? White, you might think. But actually, milk comes in four different colors. The four colors are light blue, navy blue, green, and red. Light blue was skim milk, navy blue was one-percent, green...

Jan 7, 2022, 3:14 PM

Haftarah Bo: Never let the News get in the way of your Education

Have you ever heard of a man named Hieronymus Franz de Paula Josef Graf Colloredo von Wallsee und Melz? If not, you should have. After all, in the late eighteenth-century, he was a very important man. After all, from...

Jan 7, 2022, 11:08 AM

Bo: Is it moral to celebrate the tenth plague?

We all know that, sometimes, there is some stuff in the Bible which wouldn’t exactly be “politically correct” to say today. But this week’s parsha of Bo will be particularly discordant to the modern ear. In this week’s parsha,...

Dec 31, 2021, 6:39 AM

There is no replacement for traveling to Egypt

Sometimes, it’s not so easy being an American. I’m not sure how this happened, but we are given such oversimplified, over-romanticized, overly-stupid views of the outside world. Maybe I’m the only one who this happened to, but I somehow...

Dec 30, 2021, 7:10 AM

Vaera: The Torah’s Mockery of Hard-Hearted Rulers

Have you ever thought about the heart? I mean really thought about it? I have been thinking about the heart a lot over the last several years. Not to sound too much like Jerry Seinfeld, but, really, what’s the...

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About Me

Steven Weinberg is a PhD student at Rutgers University in the German Department. His dissertation is on Franz Kafka and the Kabbalah. He grew up in Philadelphia, but moved to Israel in his late twenties, where he studied literature at Ben-Gurion University. Currently, Steven live in Berlin, but travels to Israel and America as often as he can. His blog is based off his podcast, The Schrift, a weekly lecture series on Torah, German literature, and meditation. The Schrift is available on Apple and Spotify platforms.

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