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Here’s how I concluded Tuesday’s Letter this week: It’s not about thinking less of me. It’s about thinking of me less. This is easier said...
“With nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.” A 29-year-old Abraham Lincoln spoke...
When, if ever, did the Children of Israel follow God lovingly, like newlyweds to their homeland? “I lovingly recall the devotion of your youth”...
Rebels attack Moses in this week’s portion with the most reckless verse in the Torah. “Is it not enough that you have taken us out of a land...
“Who is wise?” ask our sages. “A person who knows their place.” (Avot 6:6) This isn’t the only answer to be found in Pirke Avot. Other...
“My son was actually upset with me,” Iris told us this week. Why was he upset? Because he felt less loved than his brother and sister were....
A tender father-son moment with Hersh appears at the end of Rachel Polin-Goldberg’s new book. Twice every Shabbat morning, Jon would cover Hersh in...
There’s no shortage of blame in today’s world. With so much that’s wrong, it’s not surprising that there’s more than enough to go around. We...
A true story. Back in the 1970s a Soviet Jew seated at a Moscow Seder table felt an urge. He recalled a fellow Jew who’d been imprisoned for...
A six-year-old child recently described the Seder’s four children like this. “There’s one who’s good. One who’s naughty. And two more who...
The world knows Anne Frank. Israelis also know another young woman named Hannah Senesh. Anne once wrote that people are “truly good at heart.”...