Years before Oct. 7, Leonard Cohen wrote a song that anticipated its darkness
A close-reading of Cohen's 'You Want It Darker' in a post-Oct. 7 world
A close-reading of Cohen's 'You Want It Darker' in a post-Oct. 7 world
I had prayed to God for help. Now, for the first time, I could pray to God from my synagogue.
Out of all the places I've said kaddish, online and in-person, this was one of the more meaningful
My mother prayed to the angels daily to keep me safe. Hearing that prayer again helped me grieve her loss
As the Democrats’ chief deputy whip, Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schultz herds her colleagues for key votes. So I figured she could rustle up nine Jews.
This is the message I shared with my congregation during this past weekend’s Rosh Hashanah services, before we said the mourner’s Kaddish for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and from the Congress floor today. We have to resist what may be our first impulse over the loss of Justice Ginsburg – the political horror of it….
My father, a fan of life, music and his home state politician Joe Biden, died soon after the first case of Covid-19 was reported in Delaware — although fortunately not of Covid-19. He was felled by “natural causes,”also known as the physical vicissitudes of old age. Dad’s death was not unexpected, but because of the…
A writer searches for the right language to mourn those slain in the Pittsburgh synagogue
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