Laurel Snyder

I scribble a lot. I talk too much. I apologize with wild abandon.

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So why don’t you get a tattoo?

I grew up hearing a lot about the Jewish prohibition against tattoos and other forms…

Learn just enough to be dangerous

I got to thinking today about how I’m not really someone who reads a lot…

Hippies and frumsters and you

I'm a total poser to try and talk about this,  because I've never even been to…

On Saddam’s death: “our Christian brethren refuse to hate evil”

I'm having a tricky time with this Op-Ed in the Jerusalem Post, about how the…

So maybe you DON’T need to join a synagogue to learn stuff, find community, and feel Jewish

This may seem like a pretty dull topic for a post, but it's also useful…

Polytheism is stupid and ignorant. And also, we’re all brothers.

The Revealer recently  tipped me off to the Washington Post’s “conversation on religion.”  And in…

“Hanukkah lights”: last post mentioning the holiday season… I swear!

The other day, a friend asked me about the new tradition Jews are adopting of…

What DON’T Unitarians believe?

There are a lot of Jews who practice as “Jewnitarians”.  Which is to say…  there…