For the majority of people who can’t afford designer “investment pieces” that are timeless and high quality, fashion is about finding cheap and easy ways to replicate runway trends and designs. It’s anything but sustainable.
Jewish communities, despite their history of prioritizing questions above answers, are not immune to this new climate that discourages diversity of viewpoint and the questioning of certain ideologies.
Over the past few years it seems that what I considered ideals for a teacher are now seen as dangerous.
Maybe we don’t always realize it, but perhaps simply being visibly Jewish out in the world is itself a mitzvah.
Americans have an obsession with false choices, and many of the movements within both far-left and far-right circles have taken advantage of this obsession.
People always ask me why we left the U.S., and the truth is that it wasn’t one thing.
In a truly Jewish communal space, all of these voices would be given room to speak, space to breathe. But we know that is less and less the case.
In such a serious moment in which everything is politicized and partisan, and in which so many of us have become self-righteous about our politics and ideologies, maybe we have an even greater responsibility to laugh.
This time of year, I long for the temporary and deconstruct-able. I long for the space to doubt so that I have the space to appreciate the unknown and improvisational.