Women
The Great Battle
A woman I met who was devastated over the fact that her only son had married a non-Jewish woman shared with me what she considered to be the defining moment of that...
Crying Over Darkness
There is a reason why people who cry are called cry-babies. Crying doesn’t make sense and we assume children are most prone to irrationality. Children do things...
The Importance of Time
Pesach has passed and we are all back to our normal routines. Yes, we related the story. Yes, we expounded on the Haggadah. Yes, we listened joyously while our children...
Gender and Judaism from a Haredi Perspective
Recent debates about women and the Orthodox rabbinate yielded a range of interesting, impassioned and also banal observations by various Jewish professionals and...
Keeping the Laws of Tznius in 40°C? It's Possible!
The thermometer reads 39°C but I have to keep my elbows covered, a skirt ok, but with tights underneath, and to top it all off, I have to cover my hair… Oh,...
Ruth or Meritocracy in Judaism
Ruth embodies the Torah's quintessential "woman of valor". She is privileged to incarnate the most desirable feminine qualities, such as modesty, devotion, wisdom, and...
The Guarantors
There’s a beautiful midrash that prompts the cynical among us to smile. But I invite even the most ardent cynic to read this column and then tell me if this...
Avital's testimony: A Kosher Shopping Experience
Whenever Avital goes shopping, she never has much luck! Most of the time it turns out that the clothes she buys are not as comfortable as she thought they would be, and...
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Weekly Parsha
Candle Lighting - New York
Friday November 22th, 2024 at 16:14 *Shabbat ends at 17:17 *
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