By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
I didn’t go. I also didn’t go to any of my prior high school reunions so this really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who knows me well. My reasons for not going? I am not nostalgic about my teenager years and have no desire to talk to people I haven’t see…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
I love reading books about social psychology, particularly ones that not only give me a greater understanding of human nature, but make me question my own behavior. But rarely do I have the opportunity to read a news story that highlights the idea under discussion …
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
I would love to organize a discussion between Dara Horn and Philip Slayton. For those who don’t know, Horn is an American novelist who also wrote a book of essays called “People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Past,” which I wrote about in this column…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Every major newspaper in the United States offered details about the deal President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached to prevent the United States from defaulting for the first time in the history of our country. The questions and the tone of many …
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
One of the friends who accompanied me asked if I was going to put an article in the paper about the ceremony and I said there was going to be a one-inch “Of note” (see page 3) and maybe something for this column. She muttered something along the lines that I cer…
