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Oct 10, 2026, 1:31 AM

When the Bed Is a Battleground: October 7, Beta Israel Theology, and Redemption

A close friend of mine lives in Montreal. She is active in an important organization dedicated to women’s rights, particularly helping women who have suffered as a result of wars and armed conflicts. She is an extraordinarily compassionate person,...

Chavi Eisenberg

Oct 8, 2026, 11:56 PM

Teaching the stories that disturb us

On difficult narratives in Tanakh and the responsibility of teaching them. This week, I taught a group of 18-year-old seminary students one of the most disturbing stories in all of Tanakh. Actually, I taught them two. We were learning about intertextuality,...

Oct 8, 2026, 11:34 PM

Rosh Chodesh – The hidden holiday (and a celebration of feminine spirituality)

With the conclusion of the Biblical holidays of Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret, it could appear that there will be a little break now until we celebrate our next holiday from the 5 books of the Torah (Hanukkah is of...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Oct 7, 2026, 10:03 PM

A Thorny Situation

After they ate from the tree, Adam, Chava and the snake were all cursed. The thorn represents Adam’s curse (Breisheet 3:17-18): “…Accursed is the land because of you; by painful toil you shall eat all of the days of...

Ilana Gimpelevich

Oct 2, 2026, 1:00 PM

The Torah Has Always Been Mine.

When did my obsession with Simchat Torah start? For a girl from the former Soviet Union who did not grow up religious, my awareness of Simchat Torah began in my teenage years, when I attended a girls’ high school....

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

Oct 1, 2026, 11:29 PM

What Sukkot knows about the mental load

Despite our egalitarian ideals, my wife runs our home for 51 weeks a year. And then, for one long holiday, Jewish law gives men like me that experience

Daphne Lazar Price

Sep 28, 2026, 3:10 PM

I want to read the essays

Young men writing essays. (iStock)

When you were accused of drugging and gang-raping a woman and given the opportunity to mitigate against the alleged crime, what did you say?

Allen S. Maller

Sep 24, 2026, 12:40 AM

A Messianic Harvest That Can Overcome Even Gog And Magog

The developing El Niño climate phenomenon is now the strongest on record, according to scientists monitoring Pacific Ocean temperatures. Daily sea surface temperatures in a key region of the central-eastern Pacific were 3.05C above average on 19 September -...

Whimsy Anderson

Sep 22, 2026, 11:57 PM

Why I Cannot tell Young Women to Make Aliyah

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I cannot, in good conscience, encourage women — especially young women — to make aliyah. I would reverse that only when life for women in Israel actually improves. Not the slogan. The law, the street, the army, and the...

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