Last week the New York senate voted in favor of marriage equality and as marriage licenses began to be issued the photos of newly-married gay and lesbian couples flooded the news and with my iPad in my lap, I sat and binged on them for hours. And as always, the ever-present and enthusiastically-celebrated diversity common [...]

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Now that I have your attention… A rabbi gathered his students around him one day and asks, “How do you know when the night is almost past and day is about to break?” “Rabbi, is it when you see a tree in the far distance and you can tell that it’s a tree?” ventured a [...]

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This morning I drove into our little town to pick up a couple Valentine’s cards for D and was only in the card shop for a few minutes before the clerk, an older woman, asked if I needed any help. “Do you have a separate section for Valentine’s Day for wives?” I said. “You mean [...]

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