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“Last Shabbos, because of me more people were talking about gay rights around the the Shabbes table, and it’s a ...

After a weekend full of indulging in cheesecake and late-night snacking, everyone is trying to find a way to swing ...

I want to share the chorus of one of my favorite Indigo Girls songs with you:So we’re ok, we’re fine, ...

Yesterday was a big day for our family. My daughter graduated from college. She was the fourth of our five ...

An Orthodox rabbinic colleague Rabbi Zev Farber recently posted on Morethodoxy a piece on the experience of place women have ...

I can’t seem to decide, do I want to move America “Forward” or do I “Believe in America”? I’m ...

Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...

I recently made my first exploratory college visit with my high school aged son. My initial reaction during the tour ...

Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...

Several years ago at a writing conference, I was listening to a panel of agents and editors talk about how ...

A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...

Every year I get a call from my mother, “Remind me again, do we eat peanuts on Passover?”This question should ...