Posts Tagged: Lieba Rudolph
Noah, Technology and the Coming of the Messiah
I was talking with a rabbi recently, and told him that the world had hit a new low. He quickly reminded me that Cain slew...
We Must Embrace the Idea of the Messiah
As a mother, I learned that just because you don't get paid doesn't mean you don't work hard. I also learned that even without pay, you...
Making the Messiah a Reality
"The whipped cream will be a few minutes. Is that okay?" "Sure," I smiled. Being patient can be challenging for me, but I didn't mind this...
Being Religious About Shabbat Means Connecting With God
Many people today sneer at keeping Shabbat. To them, Shabbat observance smacks of everything that's wrong with religion. As someone who started keeping the sabbath so my...
Why People Hate God, and Why They’re Wrong
My late father insisted that religion was bad for the world, because it caused so many wars. I tried for years to convince him otherwise (unsuccessfully, of course),...
Rebuilding the Third Temple
If you're looking for the mothership of Jewish guilt, it can be found in our responsibility to rebuild the Third Temple -- Beit Hamikdash. Our sages say...
Becoming Orthodox and Kicking the Clothes-Shopping Habit
When I tell my daughter-in-law, Devorah, who has only known me for five years, that I used to love shopping, she finds it hard to...
Sorting Through My Parents’ Memories and Mementos
I'm learning a lot in the process of reassigning my deceased parents' material legacy -- in other words, figuring out what do with over 50 years...
Leaving the Fold and Returning to It: Two Tales of Adjustment
I did something recently that I said I wasn't going to do anymore: I read an online essay by a woman who left the "ultra-Orthodox"...
Remembering a Stunning, Brave Girl — and a Light of Hope
“Is it me, or is it always either really hot or really cold here?” my husband asked as we walked through Montefiore Cemetery in Queens. There...
A Commencement Message and a Call to Judaism
Your birth was your defining moment -- yet you didn't ask to be born at all, much less to the family you were born into. You didn't...
The Blessing of a Big Family
Pictures don't lie, but they don't tell the whole truth either. They just capture a moment -- a split-second in time. Our family recently captured a split-second...
