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Is It Too Early To Teach My Daughter To Be A Feminist?
My 15-month-old daughter has a game she likes to play. She enjoys walking up to my husband while he is ...
Appointing Judges Shouldn’t Be Taken Lightly
The Torah portion called Shoftim, the Hebrew word for judges, is always read at the beginning of the new month ...
Praying For My Children After Charleston
Week after week, I light two small candles. I move behind my children and put one hand on each of ...
A Letter to My Son
This is the second in a short series about adoption and multiracial Jewish families that Be’chol Lashon will be running over ...
Passover and the Need for Wiser Questions
In college, David Abusch-Magder (then David Abusch) decided to take a class in African dance. Over the years he had watched ...
This Passover Choose Judaism
My wife and I are an interracial couple. I am a White, Ashkenazi Jewish man from New York. She is ...
But Can You Pick Your Family?
“Usually I would say I want to go to camp to see all my old friends, but to be honest ...
How Kosher is “Kosher Soul?”
What could be funnier than a black man marrying a white woman?Before you say “Loving v. Virginia,” hold on, there’s ...
My Four-Year-Old Just Lit Shabbat Candles for the First Time
“Tzi-tzit tzitzit tzitzit, where are you today? I need you for a bracha, I need you right away!”This was a ...
My Magen David, My Identity
My daughter Maya and I had been walking along 125th Street in Harlem, past the larger-than-life statue of Adam Clayton Powell, ...