The New Yorker Magazine (№ 7th December 2020) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2020-11-30T09:28:02+00:00

COMIC STRIP BY ROZ CHAST

her children? Issac said that maybe the

Bobov school was the best school, maybe

it wasn’t, but he wasn’t willing to chain

WINTER SONG FOR ONE WHO SUFFERS

up his wife to find out. Afterward, as

he and Faigy walked away, down Fif-

The stars stand up

tieth Street, he didn’t feel angry; he felt

behind the day. A known dove balances

peaceful. He said to Faigy, “It’s over—

on its claw

the book is closed on Bobov.”

at the window. A cosmic incident

The next day, he realized that he

of darkness has begun

was done with more than the school.

He said to Faigy, “If I don’t have to fol-

& a mild excess of beauty

low the rules for the yeshiva, then why

will be offered to the dead,

do I need to follow them at all?” He

which they will eat. On a hill

told her, “I think I can keep Shabbos,

I think I can keep kosher, but beyond

the wise man serves the people,

that I’m not sure.” This was intensely

your thought splits

painful for Faigy, who was deeply pious.

in half when he speaks of the old

Issac had been untethered from reli-

revolts, the return

gion inside his head for a long time,

of apocalypse, motive & advancement.

but to her it felt as though everything

she knew about her family had sud-

A soul can crouch

denly exploded into pieces.

a long time while the heart

Up to this point, whatever Issac had

expands to reach its edges.

done or not done at home was between

What is missing past the glitter

him and Faigy. Outside the house, he

of the harvest?

still looked and behaved more or less

Friend, you chose

like a religious man. But now he felt

to live. How? You did. So many

an urge to go to the barber and have

choices, not just two, encrypted

his beard shaved and his payos—side-

behind the mystery of the sun,

locks—cut off. At that point, his apos-

tasy would become irretrievably pub-

then the hurt was set aside,

lic. He wanted to do it right away, but

indeterminate chaos

he decided to think about it, to make

called in by love.

sure that he would have no regrets. So

he set a calendar reminder in his phone

—Brenda Hillman

for four weeks from that day, to give

himself a chance to change his mind.

be a good parent. At another retreat, since she was abandoning the values of Chavie had been afraid to talk to one of her new friends said to her, “I the community, she should come up such a wild-sounding person as dare you to take your wig off.” Chavie with alternatives, so she started a “val-Chani Getter, but on the phone Chani was shocked—this felt even more exues wall” in her house, and when she

was very friendly. She invited Chavie posing than being naked, especially read a book with the kids they would to attend a retreat for L.G.B.T.Q. Or-since, unbeknownst to anyone, she had extract a value from it and paste it up: thodox Jews. At the retreat, Chavie was let her hair grow out into a Mohawk kindness, inclusivity, social justice. She asked to speak about herself, and she and dyed it in rainbow stripes—but she believed that a family should have rit-saw that people were moved by what did it.

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