If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.
Reality is a powerful solvent.
Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.