In 2013, I was privileged to meet and film an interview with Senator Joe Lieberman in Senate as part of our first class of Orthodox Jewish All Stars. We recently got a chance to sit down again and chat about what he’s been up to since he left government (a lot!) and his new book “With […]
On Thursday morning I woke up to find my danish – the one that was meant to be my breakfast danish – sitting at the top of the nearly-overflowing kitchen garbage can. My initial disappointment in seeing it there was quickly curbed by the fact that I knew I pretty much deserved it. See – I’ve been eating a lot of […]
Over the weekend, actress Amber Tamblyn (best known for her role in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”) tweeted that she was nearly run over by a Hasidic man in a van while pushing her daughter in her stroller across a street in Brooklyn earlier that day. She was hoping the police would catch the […]
I did something really horrible a few years ago. Although it was completely unintentional, as far as I can see, it remains completely irreparable. It happened on Purim, when the custom is to wear a costume in order to remind us that God’s hand remains hidden in life unless we make the effort to […]
The other day, as I was sitting in the kitchen after school with my children, I started thinking about how fortunate I am to have such wonderful kids. (In other words, everyone had slept through the night, and no one was fighting that moment!) I told my kids, “I can’t believe that Hashem gave me such wonderful children. […]
Every time I log into my Yahoo email over the last couple days, I am reminded that a female Olympic athlete recently had a “wardrobe malfunction.” I am purposely being circumspect about the details because we really shouldn’t be talking about this story at all, and I truly hope it will stop soon. For poor […]
