I never saw my parents fight. Nothing in their marriage had quite prepared me for what my own shanah rishonah would look like.
Instead of waiting for me to get out my name, people jumped into the uncomfortable, drawn-out pause with what they probably thought was a funny rejoinder. ,Lifelines: F is for Fluency,For me, it wasn’t funny at all. Because the less chance people gave me to actually say what I wanted to say, the less hope I had that I could ever open my mouth without stuttering.
By the time the rosh yeshivah made his decision, Eli was done with learning. The emotional limbo had been so draining for him that he had no interest in looking into other yeshivos
The star pitcher turned movie producer was strapped unceremoniously into an ambulance and taken to the hospital, where he was forced to take his medicine. And he lived happily ever after.
“I might die within two or three years. But before I die, I’m going to work on my middos and become a better husband and father.”
W hen people ask me how I became frum, I have two answers for them: I became frum through the Marcus Welby show, and through my stomach. Dr. Marcus Welby was the star of a popular TV medical drama series that aired in the ’70s. As a medical student in Albany, New York, I
