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The Passover season is once again upon us. Spring is in the air, the dawn […]

The other day I was reading Lucretius (which we should all get in the habit […]

Ensconced in winter, I tend to brood. I may self-aggrandize and call it “filosófye.” But […]

Well, here I was in “yánuar” (January), firmly embarked on the new year, only to […]

I recently had the unfortunate privilege of being on a panel to discuss the history […]

Now that we are well into our reading of Genesis, and as the autumn darkness […]

We are all reeling. Confronted with such unthinkable things, we crave ways to ground ourselves […]

Once more we dive headlong into the High Holidays. But as we well know, it’s […]

As my children get ready to go back to school, I find myself going through […]

There are two primary Jewish textual wells that Yiddish culture draws on with great regularity: […]