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Do you ever feel like you just don’t get it? No matter what, it just doesn’t make sense. You try and then you try a bit harder and every time you think that maybe, just maybe you got it, it just slips away from you like a helium-filled balloon on its way to greener pastures. […]
While looking back through my fiction writing that I’ve done, I realized that Jewish influence has come out in full force. Here’s a taste of what I wrote the summer before junior year of high school, simply titled, “Moses.” Behind him, a whistle seared the air, and a smacking sound was followed by a man’s […]
A poem
A left-wing historian predicts a grim future
Editor’s note
Add this to the plethora of reflections on Rosh Hashana. My Rosh was dissatisfying; sorry if that’s bad karma or something. And it’s my fault. I will now enumerate the reasons why it didn’t live up to Roshes of yesteryear: This was my first year attempting to observe Rosh Hashana while at school. And now […]
Similar to Ashley Tedesco’s entry, I struggle between what to do at college for the Holidays. Though there is a Hillel on my campus that offers services and several meals, it is difficult to actually honor a holiday in a different manner than what you grew up with. Besides missing the home cooked meals of […]
The first major political tragedy I remember was the death of Yitzchak Rabin in November, 1995. I was nine years old and until the Twin Towers fell Rabin’s assassination was my “Where were you?” moment, at least in Jewish school. I was walking into my parents’ bedroom and my mother had the TV on. She […]
The Wondering Jew on the People of the Kindle
Tradition, religion and law in American Jewish communities