On Religion.

Religion is a funny thing. I don’t want to start some sort of long-winded post about the meaning of life and religious communities and who’s right and who’s wrong, but tonight is Rosh Hashanah, and every year right about now, I tend to get introspective and unordinarily gung-ho about “recommitting” myself to Judaism, or whatever you want to call efforts I should be making year-round to not be considered the horrible Jew I am.

I don’t think you have to follow all the rules and believe every story to be part of a religion, to be part of a faith. In fact, one of the things I love about Judaism, in extremely simple terms, is that it’s so much more than a religion. In fact, religion is just a small part of what’s involved in being a Jew—but then again, anyone who’s ever seen an episode of Seinfeld or been to a Channukah party knows that.