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Two or Three God-Sized Copes

Libertarian Nihilism, Liberal Wish-Casting, and Embracing Limits
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Not All Heroes Wear Shtreimels
Chabad on the Front Line
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I Didn't Have the Heart to Sacrifice Beauty for the Torah
Though I get the rationale
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Tree Candles: a short story
A father-son tale tinged by the uncanny
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When A Book Calls Out To You
You'll Know It's the Real Thing
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And So This Is Christmas
The Thanksgiving Eve Essay That Got Me Writing Essays
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Of Bugs and Beer
A Rant on the Most Recent Tightening of the Kosher Noose
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They're Either Liars or Lizard People
Matt Walsh, Megyn Kelley, Michael Knowles et al are lying to themselves or us
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Ghost Story
When Beth had come across the cataract that morning, the water plummeting downward had driven for a moment the past month from her mind, had allowed her…
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The Daily Wire Fab Four Break Up is Coming
Ben is Paul, Klavan was John but is now George, Knowles was George but is now Ringo, Matt was Ringo but is now John. . . . .And Candace is Yoko
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One Voice, Many Faces
Why God Wears a Mask
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Seeing Setting in a Grain of Sand
Thoughts on the Dakotas of Fiction
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Hollywood Halakhah
Blackface as Authenticity in The Jazz Singer
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Perplexed Jew
Perplexed Jew
Writer, English professor, late-life dad. Second-generation Holocaust survivor raised as a Christian, living as a Jew, dabbling in religion, philosophy, politics, and culture.
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