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Carol Silver Elliott

Feb 20, 2019, 10:14 PM

Confronting Taboos

I’ve been asked to do a keynote address at a State association meeting in Nebraska in March and I’ve been thinking about what to do with the hour that they’ve asked me to fill. The title I’ve come up...

Feb 20, 2019, 10:12 PM

A reason, A season or For Life?

Guess what? Well, this probably will not come as a shock to you all: There is a big difference between making love and having sex. I am talking about the sex you have when single, to when you are in...

Ziona Greenwald

Feb 15, 2019, 12:36 AM

Love Is Beautiful, But…

Can someone please tell me why Valentine’s Day is such a big deal here in Israel? Why the day is even celebrated at all? My first year here, when I saw the hearts dangling around the mall, the red balloons...

Andy Blumenthal

Feb 9, 2019, 11:35 PM

Choosing Good Over Vice

(Photo Credit: Andy Blumenthal)

The other day, I am sitting behind two security guards, and they are having this conversation about people and their desires. This one goes to the other: You know there are three parts to a person. The head, the heart, and . He...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 1, 2019, 12:11 AM

The suffering of the ethical atheist

Most people seem to assume that religions impose restrictions. And many religions seem to do that in two ways. The first set of restrictions is that in order to be holy, you need to limit partaking from the pleasures of...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 23, 2018, 11:29 PM

Is a new Dutch documentary series about the Jews any good?

Dutch-based JTA correspondent Cnaan Liphshiz sets more and more, Jews of the Netherlands on the international map - which is such a welcome thing. He now reports enthusiastically on a Dutch documentary series about the Jews. It's made by...

Dec 4, 2018, 2:15 AM

Can marijuana use destroy a life?

“I think he is using something stronger than marijuana” his mother said as we sat down for a counseling session. “How could such a mild drug cause him such problems?” At that point I shared with her that it...

Sharon Galper Grossman

Dec 2, 2018, 7:32 PM

‘I have cancer but I still need my husband’

“I have breast cancer, but I still need my husband,” she cried. Sarah was diagnosed, thank G-d, at an early stage. She had undergone mastectomy and was now scheduled for six months of chemotherapy to be delivered by a...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Nov 11, 2018, 9:03 PM

A new direction for sexuality

Connecting Through Sex Sexuality should be hidden, an activity that is private, but it should not be a dark side of us. Our sexuality should reflect the best of us, our highest believes and hopes and our deepest longings. It...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 26, 2018, 4:06 PM

Marry a Goddess!

Some men feel they are blessed because the women they marry are gifts from God. I feel this way. Not all loving relationships are arranged in heaven; but if you are in one of them you should thank God....

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