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Noam RaucherThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Men are often taught to treat money as proof of manhood. Not just as a practical necessity. As evidence. Evidence that you are competent, desirable,...
Shlomo Bardin, the visionary founder of Brandeis-Bardin, famously taught that Judaism is “caught, not taught.” He was right, and also only half...
In 2019, while going through my divorce, I learned how quietly a man can disappear inside his own life. I was working, parenting, and trying to be...
Grief is one of the places where masculinity most often betrays men. Not because men do not feel deeply. They do. But many men are trained to...
There is a particular kind of loneliness that can take root inside a marriage not because love has vanished, but because labor has gone unseen. A wife...
There is a reason a group like a new Jewish Defense League (JDL) can sound compelling right now. It has emerged in a moment when Jewish fear is not...
There is a certain kind of man our culture still knows how to applaud. He is bold. Unfiltered. A little dangerous. He says what others will not say,...
Passover is often framed as a story about freedom from oppression, and it is. But it is also a story about what happens after freedom is handed to...
If you saw someone moving through a dark house with a candle, searching for crumbs, it might look strange. On the night before Passover, though, that...
One of my favorite songs is Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” What makes it so good is that the song refuses to wait for a...
Two words name this double portion: Vayakhel–Pekudei. They don’t sound dramatic. They are. Vayakhel means and he gathered—not that Moses...
In Ki Tisa, the Torah interrupts big leadership with small, stubborn truths: you have worth before you produce, limits before you collapse, and...
Men are often met as uniforms before they are met as human beings. We read the “outside” first: the job title, the competence, the calm voice, the...
Men are starving for sanctuary—and many of us don’t know it until we try to rest and can’t. We live as if “safe” is a luxury item: a week...