We are all children of Abraham
but also the grandchildren of Terach, Abraham’s father.
And maybe its high time the grandchildren
did unto their father as he did unto his
when he shattered idols and images, his religion, his faith.
That too would be the beginning of a new religion.

When someone demands to know how we are going to replace [core institutions], they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to.

The American Jewish community has probably lost 30 percent of its wealth, and we have no idea how to cut the costs of the Jewish community by 30 percent.