My understanding of romantic relationships in literature, where men endlessly pursuing women is regarded as idealistic and romantic, whereas women en… - Dara Horn

Judaism is much bigger on commitment than fulfillment.

Our world may be a waiting room, but it is a crowded one, filled with people shouting, singing and whispering words that those sitting right beside them only rarely understand. Perhaps the World to Come is best understood not as an afterlife, but as the future — an unexpected place where possibilities will travel on rafts of language, ready for someone to draw them up onto dry land.

"Censorship" is beside the point, the insane extremes of "cancel culture" extravagantly irrelevant, because this double helix of hate and art is built into our world. ("Commuting with Shylock")