An Unmarried Woman

Alone among the Bible’s heroes, the prophet Devorah, my namesake and the hero of this week’s haftorah, didn’t need a man to make her complete. But what can a modern single woman learn from her?

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Defending Wiesenthal, not healing the world, and more

Cruel to Be Kind

A haftorah of consolations and expectations

Toy Soldiers

A haftorah of breaking down and sobering up

Drowning in Numbers

A haftorah of counting down and living it up

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Etgar Keret airborne, singing Yiddish, and more

By the Book

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Torah

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Breaking Passover in style, the ‘linkage’ problem, and more

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The Seder sausage-making, and more

Dead Wrong

A haftorah of rigidity and ritual