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Learning, Teaching, and the Space Between

“I have learned much from my teachers and even more from my friends, but from my students I have learned more than from all of them.” — Rabbi...

Shanee b. michaelson

People don’t always know how to respond when they learn I have a sister I don’t speak to. Some rush to fix it: You should reach out. Others turn...

The first year of marriage is supposed to be about adjustment: learning how someone else loads the dishwasher, discovering incompatible sleep...

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing Light of your own Being.” ...

I was born at Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, which I know only because I have memorized the name. Hadassah, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel. I say...