Celebrating Seven Years of Sobriety with a Tattoo and My First Trip to Germany

Finding my Judaism in the un-Jewish

The Return of the Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation to His Family Still Living in Accordance with Old Customs by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1833

Leviticus 19:28’s instructions are clear: Ye shall not print any marks upon you. And yet there I was, this past March, sitting on a plane to Europe, to get a tattoo that would cover half of my right arm. Thoug…