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In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist

In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist

The challenge of friendship between two older bachelors in Jerusalem: Isaac, assistant to mystic Rabbi, and Mustafa, caretaker on Temple Mount.

2024

Ruchama Feuerman

Ruchama Feuerman

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The Memoirist

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Jun 26, 2025

I’d Never Even Seen A Dead Body Before, And Now I Was Going To Prepare the Deceased For Burial?

Once, at a Bar Mitzvah, I came across a table of women talking animatedly to each other. One seemed wealthy and conservatively dressed, the…

I’d Never Even Seen A Dead Body Before, And Now I Was Going To Prepare the Deceased For Burial?

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The Memoirist

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Nov 23, 2025

How a Mean Teacher Turned a Word I Didn’t Know and a Book I Didn’t Want Into a Life I Didn’t Expect

We called her Mrs. Mean-a-ker instead of Mrs. Menaker, because to us third graders, that was the height of wit — and also because she was…

How a Mean Teacher Turned a Word I Didn’t Know and a Book I Didn’t Want Into a Life I Didn’t Expect

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Age of Empathy

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Jul 11

My Mother Died Years Ago. She Still Tells Me What to Buy.

And we argue

My Mother Died Years Ago. She Still Tells Me What to Buy.

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May 3, 2025

Why Did George Eliot Stick Her Neck Out For the Jews?

In doing so, she changed the course of history

Why Did George Eliot Stick Her Neck Out For the Jews?

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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

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Ruchama

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3d ago

Why Hating Jews Feels Sooo Good

Three excellent reasons

Why Hating Jews Feels Sooo Good

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Age of Empathy

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Ruchama

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Oct 8

You Never Know When a Nice Group of People Could Morph into a Mob, Do You?

When 400 passengers faced a brutal 100-seat lottery in Frankfurt

You Never Know When a Nice Group of People Could Morph into a Mob, Do You?

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ILLUMINATION

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Ruchama

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Oct 3

The Plane Was Nose-Diving. There Was No Time to Squabble

“I watch Air Crash Investigation.”

The Plane Was Nose-Diving. There Was No Time to Squabble

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Ruach

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Ruchama

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Jun 19

Hitler’s Terrible, No Good, Bad Day in Court

And the Jewish lawyer who exposed him

Hitler’s Terrible, No Good, Bad Day in Court

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Age of Empathy

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Ruchama

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May 28

The Toe on the Edge of the Blanket

Afraid I’d get pulled into Mount Zion and stay forever

The Toe on the Edge of the Blanket

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Ruach

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Ruchama

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May 21

Shavuot: The Holiday of Blank Space

No one knows where Sinai was or even what day it happened

Shavuot: The Holiday of Blank Space

Ruchama

Ruchama

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Essayist, novelist (St. Martin's Press, New York Review Books), editor and writing teacher. At home in the intersection of the holy and the ridiculous.

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