Tag: Sodom

  • Donkey Empathy

    This week’s Torah Portion, Mishpatim, is perhaps my favorite. Like a great standup bit, it seems to be random observations going nowhere in particular, until the final revelation. Hot off the giving of the Ten Commandments, we have a Parsha that is different from many which came before it. There are no spectacular miracles, no…

  • “Keep pushing to see what happens”

    Sometimes the prison walls and barbed wire fences squeeze you a little tighter than you can bear — or it feels that way. There are days when call after call goes to voicemail directly because friends assume calls from “Washington DC” are spam (Store 202-499-3650 as ‘BOP Prison Call’ so you know if a friend…