“You are a Jew?”

“You are a Jew?” The Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2008 The Jerusalem Post- International Edition, July 11, 2008 One wrong turn and I am standing alone in an alley in Marrakech, deep inside the medina, the dusty red wall of Palais de la Bahia on one side of me, a row of closed stores to …

Meeting God in the middle

Meeting God in the middle The Jerusalem Post, June 6, 2008 Say the words “secular yeshiva” to most Israelis and they’ll scratch their heads. A secular yeshiva? What does that mean? The words shouldn’t appear so close to each other in a sentence. Maybe they shouldn’t be in the same sentence at all. And yet, …