The Curious Jew

 I've decided to write meditations on the weekly Parsha at my new substack, 'Parsha with Chana.'
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 This is an excerpt from 'Here is Real Magic' by Nate Staniforth. It's also the best thing I've read lately. (The one thing you need to know to understand what you are reading is that he is a magician.)
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Every night onstage I witnessed a tension in the human spirit between our longing to revel in a mystery and our impulse to destroy it. I came to see the modern resentment toward magic as a clue to some larger struggle in our culture, like a small ripple...

Much has happened. We have transitioned to life under coronavirus, our new normal. At this point, we know how to navigate Zoom classes and my daughter's asynchronous lessons (provided via a Google Site her school put together). We continue to shelter...

I woke up at this ungodly hour feeling the strong urge, no need, to write. It's not really ungodly- 5:50am- except that I went to bed at 1:30am. As I do when I stay up all night reading about coronavirus, about the risks as they apply to me and people...