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Gershon Blumstein

Oct 4, 2026, 6:10 PM

The Judaism That Lets Us Become

What We Inherit, What We Change, and What We Give Forward I have carried a question for most of my life, though I did not always know I was carrying it. What does it mean to inherit Judaism? For years, I believed...

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Oct 2, 2026, 10:25 AM

Simchat Torah: Where there’s change, I find hope

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Dancing with the Torah was once a hard sell for many Orthodox women, but it's the default for the next generation in my shul – a quiet revolution on the women's side

Sep 20, 2026, 5:20 PM

Echoes of the Past, Rituals of the Future

It was the morning before Yom Kippur and I hadn't done tashlich yet, but there was another errand involving a trip to nature on my checklist; I needed to deposit some bones. The idea of making a pilgrimage to the...

Eliezer Avraham

Sep 20, 2026, 8:47 AM

October 7: The Courage That Rises When the World Falls

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An exploration of faith, identity, and the quiet resolve that emerged in the aftermath When the World Became Unrecognizable There are moments in Jewish history when the ground beneath us gives way, when the moral order collapses in an instant....

Sep 18, 2026, 8:32 PM

The Problem Isn’t Playing Ball on Shabbat

In a recent article, an author shared how children can “upgrade their kdeushas Shabbos” by not playing ball or riding on scooters. In other words, they can improve the way they sanctify Shabbat by refraining from these activities. He...

Gabriella Jacobs

Sep 10, 2026, 9:27 PM

Holidays at the In-Laws

Since making aliyah, I’ve learned that there are many valid ways to spend a Jewish holiday. You can spend the afternoon reading, taking a walk, and eventually falling asleep on the couch. Or you can spend it playing Catan, followed by...

Michael Feldstein

Sep 9, 2026, 9:00 PM

The Evolution of the Hashkama Minyan

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Walk into almost any Orthodox synagogue on a Shabbat morning today, and you’ll likely find a 7:15am hashkama minyan packed with congregants. It feels like one of those timeless, quintessential institutions of Orthodox Jewish life today. However, the truth is...

Daphne Lazar Price

Sep 3, 2026, 6:42 PM

What Gloria Steinem taught this Orthodox feminist

Gloria Steinem at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 7, 2016 (CC, Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia Commons)

Her questions about power, equality and who gets a voice gave me a way to challenge observant Judaism from within — without asking me to abandon it

Aug 20, 2026, 3:02 PM

Book review – Between Torah and Derech Eretz

A few months ago, a collector from Israel went around with the attached tzedakah card. The card described an impoverished family whose children were sleeping on the floor. It then explained that the father learns Torah all day, resulting...

Aug 7, 2026, 7:26 PM

When Did We Start Needing Labels?

This morning I was sitting on my mirpeset with a cup of coffee, replaying a conversation I had with my son the night before. It started with what seemed like a simple question. He asked me to compare him and his...

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