057 | What Christmas Means to Me, A New Jew After Conversion
My First Christmas as a Jew was in lockdown in the pandemic epicenter: Loving Christmas doesn’t just go away when you convert
056 | Post-Mikvah Slumps, Lame Duck Dumps, and Pandemic Punishment: We enter the darkest months of the year
Things are beyond difficult for millions. A week from tonight, we begin to light the lights to guide us into a better chapter
055 | A New Jew’s Registry: Social Causes, Nefesh, and Some Holiday Cheer
Some things you can do to help me mark my milestone, including giving to some good causes, my budding Jewish community that’s doing great, fresh, necessary things and is in startup mode, or sending me a little something.
049 | My Poor Jerusalem: Tisha B’av, Portland, and Grief
This week as I marked my first Tisha B’av as part of the community, booms filled the sky. Smoke filled the air in Portland and beyond, and I thought of all the atrocities that befell Israel over time and how we’re now seeing it again in America.
026: Oi to the World: First Hanukkah, Awkward Family Christmas, and I *Heart* Maccabees
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So they say, and it was a Jew who wrote that
