Forgiveness has its limits: a Yom Kippur reflection on justice
What Jewish texts might say about this year’s sins and sinners
What Jewish texts might say about this year’s sins and sinners
Bintel weighs in on forgiving someone who hasn't asked for it — and how to channel the emotional energy involved
As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, one particular student posed my greatest challenge
My teenage comments were abhorrent. Yet the context in which I made them is important to understand
Bintel advises a CEO wondering whether four decades is long enough to forgive a grievous error
I’ve co-parented with a husband I loved, a husband with whom I was miserable but who was on the same parental page as me, and an ex-husband who was my good friend. Now, for the first time, I am co-parenting with an ex-husband with whom I have an acrimonious relationship and who has increasingly divergent ideas from my…
As soon as I learned to read, I became a bookworm. I spent much of my childhood immersed in novels and generally oblivious to the rest of the world. One day in high school, as I made my way down the hallway absorbed in a book, I accidentally walked straight into a brawl and got…
Since his tragic departure from the Daily Show, Jon Stewart has become the rarest of sights. Save for his unofficial submission to headline next year’s Nice Jewish Guys calendar, Jon Stewart has only made the most sporadic of media appearances in the past year. For the first time in 20 years, there was no “Indecision”…
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