Laurie Novick, at The Blogs

Mar 16, 2020, 7:28 PM

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With quarantines and shuttered synagogues keeping us home, we have a golden opportunity to recalibrate Jewish observance

Mar 13, 2020, 4:37 PM

The Ultimate Relationship: Quarantine and Ki Tisa

Moshe Rabbenu isn't in quarantine in this week's parasha, but he seems at first to pull away from the people after chet ha-egel, pitching his tent outside of the Israelite encampment. God does, too, telling the people a malach, Divine messenger, will ultimately...

Aug 2, 2019, 3:13 PM

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Laurie Novick is the director of Deracheha: womenandmitzvot.org, an online educational initiative of Yeshivat Har Etzion, in partnership with the Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash and the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women, Migdal Oz. She is also a veteran yoetzet halacha.