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Question 23: Why did Mama get arrested at the Hilton last night?

Jan 28, 2026

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6 min read

Question 23: Why did Mama get arrested at the Hilton last night?

Another letter to my baby in these continuously unprecedented times

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 22: How do we live knowing we will die?

Oct 10, 2025

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15 min read

Question 22: How do we live knowing we will die?

On encountering death on Yom Kippur so we can live fully the rest of the year

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 21: Can We Reckon Together?

Oct 3, 2025

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22 min read

Question 21: Can We Reckon Together?

A Kol Nidre sermon as Gaza continues to burn

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 20: Eicha—What do we need to see clearly this Tisha B'Av?

Aug 2, 2025

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13 min read

Question 20: Eicha—What do we need to see clearly this Tisha B'Av?

A sermon for Shabbat Hazon

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 19: What do we do as Gaza starves?

Jul 21, 2025

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8 min read

Question 19: What do we do as Gaza starves?

A letter to my 7 month old

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 18: How do we count?

Jun 1, 2025

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13 min read

Question 18: How do we count?

On the necessity of centering Gaza

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 17: Who are we in the story this year?

Apr 20, 2025

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11 min read

Question 17: Who are we in the story this year?

On our obligation to understand that when it comes to the Exodus, sometimes we are both Hebrews and Egyptians

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 16: What are this year's seder table questions?

Apr 11, 2025

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2 min read

Question 16: What are this year's seder table questions?

Four new questions for this year's Pesach

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 15: What do we say to our children?

Feb 21, 2025

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6 min read

Question 15: What do we say to our children?

On the deaths of too many children in this horrible war

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 14: How do we hold onto hope?

Nov 6, 2024

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14 min read

Question 14: How do we hold onto hope?

Yom Kippur reflections sadly appropriate for today

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 13: Of What are We Guilty?

Oct 16, 2024

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18 min read

Question 13: Of What are We Guilty?

Yom Kippur reflections after a devastating year

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 12: What is Our Anger Doing for Us?

May 24, 2024

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6 min read

Question 12: What is Our Anger Doing for Us?

On letting our foundations be rocked

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 11: Must we choose violence?

Jan 13, 2024

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15 min read

Question 11: Must we choose violence?

On Moses, MLK, Israel, Gaza, and choosing better path

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 10: How do we choose connection?

Nov 10, 2023

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10 min read

Question 10: How do we choose connection?

On continuing to seek connection in a world that pushes us to silo

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 9: What is True for the Jews?

Oct 23, 2023

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10 min read

Question 9: What is True for the Jews?

Tending to our hearts and our shared future in this time of sorrow

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 8: Hatred or Grief?

Oct 14, 2023

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13 min read

Question 8: Hatred or Grief?

Responding to the crisis in Israel and Gaza

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 7: Fear or Awe? (Kol Nidre 5784/2023)

Sep 26, 2023

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17 min read

Question 7: Fear or Awe? (Kol Nidre 5784/2023)

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 6: How do we find wholeness? (Rosh Hashanah 5784/2023)

Sep 18, 2023

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14 min read

Question 6: How do we find wholeness? (Rosh Hashanah 5784/2023)

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 5: What do we do about the cost of Jewish living?

Aug 21, 2023

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8 min read

Question 5: What do we do about the cost of Jewish living?

An Elul Reflection on the difficulties of socioeconomic exclusivity in progressive Jewish life and what we can do about it, even if it feels awkward

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 4: How do we do Elul?

Aug 14, 2023

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7 min read

Question 4: How do we do Elul?

A guide for reflection for all of us

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 3: Why are so many Jews so scared of what other Jews will think?

Jul 31, 2023

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6 min read

Question 3: Why are so many Jews so scared of what other Jews will think?

Reflections on a walk in Williamsburg

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 2: What do we do about Hebrew?

Apr 30, 2023

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9 min read

Question 2: What do we do about Hebrew?

An unresolved exploration of a serious Jewish dilemma

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
Question 1: Why "do" Passover?

Mar 5, 2023

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5 min read

Question 1: Why "do" Passover?

On the delights of Pesach cleaning

Emily Cohen
Emily Cohen
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