Rivkah Schwab

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Dec 1, 2015, 11:47 AM

What Jerusalem Should Learn from Tel Aviv

Hold onto your spodaks but the city of sin and sunshine has what to teach us frum folk in the Holy city. My husband and I just got back from the shortest trip to chutz l'Aretz this country has...

Jul 30, 2014, 7:52 AM

For the Merit of Eyal, Naftali and Gil-Ad

As we conclude the shloshim for our three sons Naftali, Gil-Ad, and Eyal—the first thirty days of mourning—in the midst of the national trauma of war, I wonder whether a fitting tribute to Gil-Ad, Eyal and Naftali, who the...

Jun 24, 2014, 12:05 PM

Restoring Our Captivity: An Open Letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Like so many in Eretz Yisrael at this time, I am anguished about the fate of these three boys kidnapped by terrorists. I am an almost 50 year-old immigrant from America who returned to mitzvah observance about...

May 26, 2013, 3:16 PM

The Thrill of Submission

While the media portrayed the seminary girls in attendance at the Western Wall on Rosh Chodesh Sivan as mindless lemmings in thrall to their Rabbis, we married women would turn out en masse if we were asked to demonstrate...

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Rivkah Schwab is a wife, mother and writer living in Jerusalem.