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Mikveh Attendants Need Less Legislation and More Education
Earlier this month, Hadassah Braun Margolese wrote a blog here at The Torch describing her anguish about not being able ...
Rabbis Without Borders Hanukkah Gift Guide
Happy Hanukkah, Jewish learners and lovers of Jewish learners! If gift-giving is a part of your Hanukkah tradition, let our ...
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...
Exciting Possibilities for Jewish Camp
I’ve just returned from a trip to Jerusalem where I participated in two important gatherings: the Planning Summit for a ...
Solving the agunah problem means finding the right address
In the wake of the current discussion of the Gital Dodelson case (about which I know nothing more than what ...
Terror in Afula, Seen from Afar
A numinous dream, last Wednesday:I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting my ...
Ladino Pregnant Pop
“Ensuenyo Te Vi” Three words that normally don’t go together: Ladino, Pop, Pregnant. But in my world they make a ...
The Burden of Silence
I was born in Baltimore in 1954, nine years after the Shoah, one of signature events of the 20th—or any—century. That ...
Subway sleeper, Rabbi returns cash: when people do the right thing
You may have caught a couple of stories that have been spreading virally over blogs and Face book the last ...
I Belong Everywhere
This week, as I perused the internet, I stumbled upon a quiz entitled “Where You Belong: Your State Personality.”It involved ...
Let Everyone Shine
Allowing each individual's particular talents to find expression strengthens the entire unit.