Get Lost >>
Date: 2016-06-01 | Id: rdw19

I mean it. This summer, get lost. Remember driving somewhere before the invention of GPS navigation? Before MapQuest? People would give directions over the phone, we’d dutifully copy them down (usually omitting just one key item), and we’d set off on our journey.

You Can Do This >>
Date: 2016-04-20 | Id: rdw20

You. Can. Do. This.

When we hear that there are 613 mitzvot in the Torah, there is a temptation to give up and say, “Well, I’ll just try to be a good person. That’s all Judaism really wants.” But it’s not.

Happy Purim!!??? >>
Date: 2016-02-03 | Id: rdw21

This is my Purim article. I’m stating this at the outset because it is about the Veterans’ Administration, and it would be funny – hilarious, actually – if it weren’t true. But as a writer once said, “Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense.”