Judaism

February 6, 2022 12:19 pm·

Removing Maus from the curriculum betrays education and morality

Out of 50 states in the US, only 19 have mandated Holocaust education. New Jersey is one of them. (My mother, an educator and the…

February 11, 2021 4:31 am·

State-Sanctioned Abuse: Does a woman need to nearly die to earn her freedom?

Three women made headlines in the past week. Each was abused by her husband. One is dead. One nearly died. And the other is still…

December 7, 2020 8:10 pm·

Seal of Respect: Because that Orthodox extremism isn’t going to fight itself

Dearest Readers, You have been with me – us, Chochmat Nashim (the organization I co-founded to push back extremism) – as we followed, documented, and…

July 14, 2020 6:42 pm·

God listened to women. Why doesn’t Boro Park Hatzolah?

The Daughters of Zelophehad. (illustration from the 1908 Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons, public domain) The gloves are off in…

June 22, 2020 5:57 pm·

Small can be beautiful for garden simchahs

An Israeli back garden wedding (Photo:Laura Ben David) How many times one can talk about barmitzvah plans while going in 100-meter circles? Many! Especially when…

June 18, 2020 3:48 pm·

Everyone should feel safe in their own home

In the UK, two women were murdered by their husbands in the first weeks of quarantine. In Spain and France women are using codewords at…

June 18, 2020 3:37 pm·

Lonely men and women of faith-by Timothy P. Carney, Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, Siraj Hashmi

Our Sunday Best Timothy P. Carney Around 11 p.m. on a Sunday night in May 2009, I stood outside Dahlgren chapel at Georgetown University in…

March 18, 2020 4:50 pm·

A trip that opened my kid’s eyes-and my own

Making Aliyah means leaving people behind. So, when my husband’s siblings asked us to meet them halfway in Madrid, we said yes. I expected to…

March 9, 2020 11:10 pm·

Will civil courts be the salvation of chained Jewish women?

When Orthodox rabbis drag their feet and prolong divorce proceedings for what can be years, Jewish women turn to civil law to sidestep the religious…

January 9, 2020 11:31 pm·

Torah learning is for women: Reflections on the first-ever women’s Siyum HaShas event

What does one wear to the world’s first women’s Siyum HaShas event? The question I posed on social media was a joke, a play on…

December 30, 2019 12:04 pm·

The erasure of women has a deadly impact

In Israel, a man rides a bike down a busy street. Instead of passing the slow moving bus before him, he trails closely behind it.…

December 19, 2019 11:29 am·

Our House is on fire

When a house is on fire, do we say, “It’s just in the kitchen, I’m sure it will stop there”? When a house is on…

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