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Noam RaucherThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Juneteenth marks the day when enslaved people in Texas were finally told they were free. It is a holiday about delayed freedom, but also about what...
There are mixed reviews of the UFC spectacle that took place on the White House south lawn for the President’s eightieth birthday. And then there...
Two young fish are swimming along when an older fish passes by and asks, “How’s the water?” The young fish nod politely and swim on. A few...
Our ancestors are standing at the edge of possibility. They have been freed from Egypt. They have received Torah at Sinai. They have been shaped,...
When I became a father for the first time, like many men, I had no idea what I was doing. Short of helping create an actual human being, I had no real...
Parashat Naso contains one of the most difficult passages in the Torah: the ritual of the Sotah, the woman suspected of adultery. There is no way to...
The Torah’s account of Sinai is not gentle. Neither is my account of growing into manhood. Much like our ancestors’ experience receiving the Torah...
The Book of Numbers begins, unsurprisingly, by counting. At the opening of Bamidbar (lit. In the wilderness), God tells Moses to take a census of the...
My boys and I love going to the movies together. It is one of the great blessings of fatherhood: sitting in the dark next to your children, eating...
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...
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