Calligraphy

Monday, April 03, 2023

American Dreams

“It’s your job, to make her smile, to bring her happiness, and a girl like this, she can use it. You’ll know what you have to do. It’s not as easy as you think, but it’s also not ...

Calligraphy

Thursday, October 06, 2022

Bonus Round

“It’s too good an opportunity to pass up. What Yid can say no on Motzaei Yom Kippur, right?” Rabbi Plaut stopped to bask in his own brilliance

Second Dance

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Second Dance: Chapter 45

Reuven needed someone to ask a real question. Was anyone gutsy enough?

Second Dance

Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Second Dance: Chapter 43

“Oh, I don’t know, I imagine you have dreams, like every rosh yeshivah, and maybe this can help you realize them?”

Second Dance

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Second Dance: Chapter 43

Reuven was quiet. He hadn’t asked for the meeting, and he wasn’t going to make it easier for Heshy

Second Dance

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Second Dance: Chapter 42

He squinted in the darkness and stared, unable to process what he was seeing. Reuven? At Heshy Brucker’s tish?

Second Dance

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Second Dance: Chapter 41

This visit to the tent was purely a fact-finding mission — call it due diligence, the way mature, balanced people acted

Second Dance

Tuesday, July 05, 2022

Second Dance: Chapter 40

This meeting with Reuven Stagler was his idea, and his brother was there under protest. It was his show, and he would lead it

Second Dance

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Second Dance: Chapter 39

Akiva wanted to say something like, “That sort of cynicism isn’t a great chinuch technique,” but he wouldn’t stoop to that level

Second Dance

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Second Dance: Chapter 38

He would go to Boca, he decided. To anywhere, really. He wouldn’t stick around to see Heshy Brucker win

Second Dance

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Second Dance: Chapter 37

“I’m looking for my son, I just wish I understood him a bit better, like, that I really knew what he’s about”