Can you remember losing yourself in a book? I remember reading Chaim Potok’s The Chosen as a teen. The Orthodox world of Potok’s childhood was quite different from my own, but the protagonists met in a baseball game! Seeking to understand what it meant to be a Jew in modern…...
Who is wise? Who is mighty?
My father’s father grew up in a small city in western Poland. Inspired by Theodor Herzl, he was frustrated by his yeshiva’s unwillingness to embrace Zionism and its inability to address his deepest concerns. Expelled for reading Spinoza (hidden under his Talmud tractate), he joined the Zionists and never looked back. My…...
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