I’m Yael.

This is the news, the Torah, and Jewish life — told the way I’d actually tell you, over tea, not from a podium. No watered-down takes, no seventeen tabs open trying to piece it together yourself. I read the news with a Torah lens, sit with the weekly parsha, and tell you exactly what I think.

It doesn’t stop there. Home, health, wellness, money — the rest of an actual week — gets the same treatment: honest, out loud, no guesswork required. So does the stuff nobody in our community likes to say out loud, like what it actually costs to live a Jewish life, and which Jewish businesses are actually worth your money. Whatever I’m working on in my own life shows up here too, as it happens, not as a tidy story after the fact.

I’ve got strong opinions and the background to back them, and I’m done being told to stay small and quiet about either.

So pull up a chair. The tea’s hot, and we’ve got a lot to talk about.

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