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I remember where I was sitting. It was a spring day in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was wearing my white button ...

In 2001, at the age of 52, I went from being Single and Orthodox to Married and (still) Orthodox. That ...

It’s not even Rosh Hashanah, and some people are already talking about Hanukkah! There’s a new children’s book: Shmelf the ...

I went shopping for a new tallit (prayer shawl) at two competing Boston Judaica shops last week. In both stores I ...

On Shabbat, the 2nd of Av, about a week before Jews across the world fasted to mourn the destruction of ...

Young statisticians in love. Can you imagine their wedding? If you do, please don’t imagine anything stuffy or stilted. Because ...

I spent the last two years learning in a beit midrash (Jewish hall of study) in Israel. My beit midrash ...

My favorite pastime in the summer is going to my local town pool. There I can sit in the sun, ...

I spend most of my days and nights highlighting problem areas in Orthodox communities as well as viable solutions, with ...

Last night marked the beginning of the holiday of Tu B’Av. If you’ve never heard of it, you’re not alone. ...

I recently heard Rabbi Joseph Telushkin speak about the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe believed that words mattered so much that ...

In her JOFA post, “I Wasn’t Asking for Your Opinion,” Rabbanit Sharona Halickman rightfully criticizes the Orthodox Union for “only now ...