Dogs, missionaries, drifters, munchkins, the mentally ill: all these have helped me better understand our high holyday liturgy. Here are five…
Year: 2012
Dream Themes
Dream researcher John Allen Hobson wrote in 1977 that a dream is “a mental experience, occuring in sleep, which is…
Work of Love
Love certainly includes a fairy-tale aspect. No one can really say completely why he or she loves someone. The special…
Maternal Theology
My earliest memory of speaking or thinking about God: I am five years old, maybe only three years old, hanging…
Eulogy for Mom
Ruthie Duhan z”l, 1925-2012 Mom was born in the Bronx in 1925, to parents who had emigrated as children from…
Career or Calling
A Dvar Torah for Parshat Matot Nechama Leibowitz titles a chapter of her commentary on Parshat Matot “Career or Calling?”…
Faith in Lore or Science?
If you are a person of faith, how do you put into words the basis of your faith? How do…
Have It All
Earlier this summer, the blogosphere buzzed with discussion of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” (Atlantic…
Mythical Lands
I’ve been AWOL from my blog for four weeks. More like five. Or is it six? I’ve been in mother-land,…