December 25, 2024

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Elizabeth Kratz

Articles by Elizabeth Kratz

Memories of My Upper West Side

In the mid-2000s I lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, at the corner of 80th and Amsterdam. Giuliani’s New York, which was characterized by aggressive

My Call Sign Is ‘Rabbi’

The weeks before, during and after Shavuot this year were unlike any other for two northern New Jersey rabbis. Teaneck’s Rabbi Ezra Frazer and Rutherford’s

Gratitude, Today and Every Day

In my 20s and early 30s, before I had kids tumbling in, metaphorically—and sometimes actually—clanging cymbals and shaking me awake before I had time to