In the spring of 2012, while my wife was reading novels on Cape Cod, I was glued to my laptop, shopping for sperm. As…
Revolutionary Women And The Founding of the Bund
In 1897 in an attic in Vilna a group of thirteen revolutionaries met clandestinely to officially create one Jewish workers movement. That movement would…
Calling Out Antisemitism On Twitter
CONTENT WARNING: This blog post contains hate speech and antisemitism In the midst of the BLM movement, a movement calling for racial and ethnic…
I Don’t Want To Die In Munich!
Oh shit, I hope this isn’t the end. I don’t want to die in this little room in Munich. I was half-joking but held…
My First Zoom Funeral
As teenagers, way back in the 1970s, my siblings and I would irreverently joke that our mother’s hobby was going to Goldstein’s funeral parlour…
A Collective Prayer of Hope
I heard this somewhere and it has stuck with me because when I hear people say, “What good is prayer?” it makes me wonder…
Couple Denied the Purchase of Burial Plots due to Ancient Custom
This is a tale of absurdity and darkness. I never would have thought I would be caught in the midst of a lawsuit, following…
Reclaiming Myself And My Power By Growing My Hair
For twenty of the twenty-two years that I was married, I shaved my head. I hadn’t intended to shave off my hair. Unlike my…
What Is The Future For Our Grandkids?
I recently, before the George Floyd murder, asked my 20 year-old grandson what he thought the world looked like today and how he was…
The Evolving Meaning Of Ritual In My Life
For a long time now I have rejected most ritualistic observances of Judaism. It started with a growing feminist consciousness in my early twenties,…