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Last week He had pinched her butt as He said it.  It was supposed to be sort of playful.  The mood was light and she said it too.  She still wondered if she meant it, but it didn’t…

Chaim Wassertzog, an overweight, forty year old, had a way with “kids who were off”. Wherever he would meet one, he would talk to them,  provide them with food, he would comfort them when they were worse for…

Now it has an official name: the Great Williamsburg Bike Wars. (Although without a Wikipedia entry its status as a real war is somewhat suspect.) And tonight at 7:30 pm the debate is on at Pete’s Candy Store…

The phone is ringing again. I glance at the cordless resting on the night table. The caller is indicated on the lit screen, but I am reluctant to get up and look at it. I want to sleep.…

For want of a nail the baby was lost,

For want of the baby the tzaddik was lost,

For want of the tzaddik the generation was lost,

For want of the generation the Messiah was lost,

For want of…

He came to her house, and they played with her little daughter. She was a little hyper, and seemed excited at the sight of the stranger. When the little girl fell asleep, the man came to her bed, and kissed…

“You know,” my school therapist suggested in one of our sessions.  “Exercise works much better than any antidepressant.  You should try to go on walks to alleviate your moods.”

I had recently come back from a European spring break trip…

God was good, he was kind, he was angry, he was compassionate and he was vindictive. He was everything fathomable to his human manufacturers who haphazardly forgot one attribute.  They forgot taste.

They did give him culinary taste, they said…

As if normal people get up early on weekends to mumble prayers to an invisible thing that listens at His discretion.
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Sh’ma beni,

As my father would say: her in derher.

I have suffered. At home, in school, and in society in general. However, we are an am kshei oref—a stiff-necked nation. We get up, dust ourselves off ; men visht…