When Noah prayed
You sent him a flood
and charged him with the safety
of all animal life.
What I got was rain.
I forgot to wash my shirt
so it grew mold.
In every generation
the holy men we have
stand on different levels.
We all get the hero
we deserve.
On behalf of mold
— and on behalf of my wife,
who loves when I do laundry —
I will try
to be worthy.
It is much easier to criticize and judge someone else than it is to be honest with one’s own misgivings
As a result, the gala became about him, and not an organization, as he himself said in his speech, that does “indispensable work to fight anti-Semitism and hate in all its forms,” and that “we need now more than ever.”
Let me love you, Iran, and I promise to bring the best of my Ashkenazi heritage to the table-minus the gefilte fish.
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