Erika Dreifus

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Okay, I’m going to break the rules a little bit this week.

Having just read the 75 essays in On Being Jewish Now, a new essay anthology edited by Zibby Owens, I’m going to whittle down a lot of possible Sunday Sentences to TWO. (Please admire my restraint, even as I disobey the usual practice!)

I’m grateful that my son—who would never think to leave the house without a yarmulke on his head and ritual fringes hanging out from beneath his T-shirt—still believes that he can go anywhere in the world. (Ilana Kurshan, “Around the World in 40 Days of Preschool”)

Being Jewish right now does not make me feel afraid as much as it makes me feel misunderstoood. (Jeanne Blasberg, “Conversion Lessons”)