Jewish Life and the End of the World
I don’t want to fight anymore. Judaism has a lot to offer the world, so why does it always have to feel like a fight? A fight for continuity, for identity. A fight against the baggage of Hebrew school or the trauma of a forced bar mitzvah. A fight against anti-semitism, against apathy, against the Holocaust happening again. A fight for members, for attention, for market share. I’ve come to feel that much of the work I should be doing as a rabbi is actually undoing. How many times do I see a non-Jewish wife who drives the family’s Hebrew […]