Writings & Recordings

How to be a Good Jewish Lover: The Basics

Strong marriages aren’t frictionless; strong marriages have deliberate practices that allow for complicated, fallible people to be in...

Conversion Lessons in Agriculture and Compassion

cross posted to The Forward The Jewish community has been welcoming and celebrating converts to Judaism since at least the time of Ruth,...

Becoming a Man

cross posted to the Times of Israel When I was a teenager, I had two posters on my bedroom walls — one of Samantha Fox, the ubiquitous...

Masters of the House

cross posted to Beacon Hebrew Alliance My wife should have been born on a small street in Rexingen, a small town in Germany’s Black...

Exiled from our Souls

cross posted from the Times of Israel When the Spanish fleet conquered Mexico in the 16th century, Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva was...

Mapping Our Love

crossposted with JTS Torah Online; podcast audio here Moses had no idea what he was getting into. It wasn’t just when he was talking to...

How to Be a Good Jewish Lover

My grandma used to tell me that it didn't matter what you knew as much as it mattered who you knew. Oh, but grandma, there are a lot of...

Carry that Weight

cross posted from the Times of Israel The first and only time I tried to impress a girl by singing was when I was 15 years old. I had...

This Thing Called Prayer

It's tempting to think of prayer as an eloquent form of begging. Please let me live. Please let me get this job. Please let my team win...

This is the day

Oy vey, what pain I caused myself today! Last night, I got some stressful news, so I stayed up late trying to rectify it. Of course, I...

The Face Has Already Been Revealed

Many people who live a religious life, or aspire to one, pray that God will appear to them in a cacophonous moment of revelation. We...

I (don't) believe in God

cross-posted from the Times of Israel I’m a rabbi, but I tend to get a little itchy when the question of belief comes up. Believers and...

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