Reading the feminine voices into Kohelet
Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) is best understood in the negative space, in the missing voices. Kohelet is a choir of voices trying to make...


Klavan’s Conversion and Kol Nidre
Kol Nidre is the prelude to the Yom Kippur prayers. Lewis Black called it the spookiest piece of music ever written. The tune and setting...
History, written by survivors
Like the blind man who was handed a piece of matzah, I read Kinot (Lamentations) and wonder “Who writes this sh*t?” Starving mothers...









