2+ week, 1+ day ago  (902+ words) When I was five years old, our house caught fire. It was still dark outside'around four or five o'clock on a Sunday morning. My mother woke us from our beds, grabbed my sisters and me, and ran outside as smoke…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (547+ words) These have been lonely years for many of us. Since October 7, 2023, so many Jews have told me the same quiet truth: something shifted. Friends, colleagues, and classmates'people we thought understood us and cared about us as Jews and as human…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1069+ words) There's a well-known minhag that Jews try not to sleep during the day on Rosh Hashana. The commentaries quote the Yerushalmi: Whoever sleeps on Rosh Hashana, his mazel sleeps." The post The Sublime Sleep of Rosh Hashana appeared first on…...