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Todd Berman
Jun 12, 2025, 9:18 AM
Not My Enemy: Responding to Galit Distel Atbaryan
This week, a disturbing moment unfolded in the Knesset. During a committee session, Likud MK Galit Distel Atbaryan interrupted Reform Rabbi and Knesset member Gilad Kariv, telling him: "Remove the Reformist, the Jews here want to continue." The implication...
Ruthie Hollander
Jun 5, 2025, 8:29 PM
When Judaism is uncompromising, it hurts
At the beginning of each school year, we signed a handbook. In it were the guidelines we agreed to live by if we wanted to stay enrolled and out of trouble: No unsupervised internet. No movie theaters. Modest clothing...
Michael Feldstein
May 25, 2025, 10:45 PM
Baruch Lanner and the Story That Finally Exposed Him
It’s hard to believe, but exactly 25 years have passed since the publication of “Stolen Innocence.” Researched and written by Gary Rosenblatt, then editor and publisher of The Jewish Week, this explosive article outlined years of sexual abuse of...
Joseph C. Kaplan
May 16, 2025, 6:16 AM
Our Most Precious Right – Part II
Last week I wrote about several issues that have caused me to feel alienated and lonely in national and local arenas (“Trump, Ben-Gvir, and my Vanished Abode”). This week I add several to the list. Almost five years ago, I...
Laura Fein
May 9, 2025, 12:19 PM
Zara, are you listening? Sweating the sweater
By the time you’ve had four daughters finish eighth grade at yeshiva day school, you’d think you’d know what they need to wear for graduation picture day. So when the moms of my fifth daughter’s friends asked for my expertise,...
Joseph C. Kaplan
May 9, 2025, 12:26 AM
Trump, Ben-Gvir, and my Vanished Abode
I don’t like Donald Trump. I don’t like him as a human being. He’s mean, cruel, petty, vain, bullying, intimidating, uncaring, and non-empathetic. He replaces reasoned disagreement with insults and needs to study Exodus 23:7 carefully. To get an idea...
Steven Greenberg
May 7, 2025, 4:51 PM
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Chloe Baker
May 5, 2025, 10:49 PM
The Need to Build a Culture of Constant Israel Advocacy
There is an important and under-discussed topic in the Orthodox community that needs to be brought to attention. Israel advocacy should not and cannot only be a reaction to crisis. As observant Jews, Israel advocacy, along with Torah study...
Ysoscher Katz
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Book Review: Shabbat Guidebook for Parents
Book Review: Shabbat Guidebook for Parents, Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn We are told (Yoma 83b) that the Tana R. Meir was דורש שמות: He would assign significance to people’s names, seeing them as more than mere monikers. Names, he believed, are like...
Michael Feldstein
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Orthodoxy is Thriving on the Upper East Side
For several decades, post-college singles and young married who wanted to live in New York City mostly flocked to the Upper West Side, which had several synagogues in the area and a plethora of kosher restaurants nearby. An Orthodox...
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