Dr. Robert Farrar stands at the front of the corner-windowed third-floor classroom. We are waiting for the official class time. Only then will he begin today’s talk about educational history. I look out the window at my 2003 Honda Odyssey parked a few car lengths up, off of Ventura boulevard. I’m spending a fortune to […]
I flew from Los Angeles to New York to attend my friend Arthur’s rabbinic ordination. “His seminary isn’t legitimate,” I hear from some colleagues. “You shouldn’t go,” I’m told. I suspect, and time will prove this to be true, I will lose some rabbi friends because I choose to attend the ordination
In this moment, I can accurately predict the future—she won’t eat the cheese bagels that she is about to put in the cart. How do I know? Last week, between alarm clocks and getting out the door for school, my 12-year-old child complained about being hungry. She said this at the kitchen table,
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“Do you see these?” I ask, pointing to the dozens of packing slips I have taped to the wall next to the fire escape of my classroom in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California. I continue. “Do you realize what these mean? Each and every one of these papers means that a random stranger believes