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May 26, 2026, 5:48 PM

Yearning for the Shelah’s Prayer: A Rooftop Gathering of Hope

Yoatzot Halacha Fertility Counselors in prayer opposite Har Habayit

As Yoatzot Halacha Fertility Counselors, there are often moments on Erev Shabbat, after lighting candles and davening for our own families, when our thoughts turn to the women and couples we accompanied during that week. Perhaps it is the woman...

Mar 19, 2026, 10:01 PM

Waiting Under Fire: The Hidden Struggle of Fertility During War

In the early days of Operation Lion's Roar, I heard from a fertility physician at Laniado Hospital—a religious hospital in Netanya - on that Shabbat, when the laboratory is normally closed, someone made sure to come in and remove...

Avroham Yehudah Ross

Feb 20, 2026, 7:33 AM

Who Helped Build Your Mishkan?

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I have been thinking a lot about the people who quietly showed up for me over the years. A conversation at the right time. Someone who believed in me when I did not believe in myself. Someone who stayed...

Jan 8, 2026, 12:51 PM

The Truth About Infertility and Equality in Israel

"High Risk." It is a label that turns your body into a ticking time bomb. At thirty-two years old and twenty-seven weeks pregnant with twins, I was exactly where I did not want to be: the High Risk Pregnancy Unit...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Dec 5, 2025, 10:21 AM

The Missing Link between Soft News and Hard News

News is what happened yesterday – right? Not always. If astronomers found a gigantic meteorite that was on target to smash into Earth in another year, wouldn’t that be news? For sure. Similarly, if Israel was clearly headed in...

Nov 28, 2025, 9:32 AM

Counting seven clean days: Female-halachic dissonance

Jozef Israëls: A Jewish wedding (1903), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

One woman wrote to a rabbi in 2021: “It’s terribly frustrating that I feel powerful attraction to my husband specifically in the week of the 7 clean days, with the height of desire occurring on mikveh night, and the...

Elchanan Poupko

Nov 14, 2025, 9:33 AM

Infertility: Between Privacy and Empathy

“Are you a Kohen, Levy, or Yisrael?” This question is familiar to anyone who has walked into a new synagogue and has been noticed. The Gabay responsible for calling people up to the Torah would like to know if...

Oct 21, 2025, 9:52 AM

The super Spartans will win the peace

View of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. October 8, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ FLASH90)

Of the many reasons to bet on the Jewish state emerging from the aftermath of October 7 more successful than ever, the first one may be Israelis' love of babies

Sep 25, 2025, 10:08 PM

Unlearning for Rosh Hashana: A Song in the Dark

It’s a wonderful time of year. There is a sense of newness and possibility, the autumn air is crisp and BH school is back in session. I often think about this time of year as a time for learning...

Aug 14, 2025, 8:03 AM

The Great Dating Double Standard

When "Age is Just a Number" Only Goes One Way After years of dating through the Orthodox singles ecosystem, a world where at most social events your marital status is discussed more than the weather, I got married two months...

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