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Good Reasons to Institute Civil Marriage in Israel? We’ve Got Thousands.
Avishalom Westreich and Pinhas Shifman, religious Israeli legal scholars of marriage and divorce law who presented compelling proposals at JOFA’s Agunah ...
History EXPLODES in Virginia! (Literally)
The 270-plus community histories in the ISJL’s Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities contain countless stories of Jewish-owned businesses. Often, these ...
The Demise of the Chief Rabbinate
In the spring of 1921, Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook became the first Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel ...
Why I Don’t Let My Kids Trick-or-Treat
Below, Rabbi Alana Suskin explains why her family doesn’t trick-or-treat. To hear from another Jewish mom with a different perspective, ...
Yitzhak Rabin: Captain, O My Captain!
The yahrzeit for slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, passed with scant notice here a few days ago on the 12th of ...
A Moment of Kindness
Whenever I tell anyone that mother was in a German labor camp during World War II, they assume she was ...
Cutting Material from My Novel
One of the hardest things to get used to in writing a novel is cutting material to speed up the ...
Home Cooking, Israeli-Style
Whereas the much acclaimed cookbook Jerusalem by Yotem Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi feature stunning recipes that sound delectable but require ...
My Journey to Authentic Living
We’re incredibly grateful to Yiscah for sharing this excerpt from her forthcoming book, 40 Years in the Wilderness: My Journey ...
On Writing a Fictionalized Account of Baruch Spinoza’s Family
I’ve often been asked both by journalists and by my readers why my novel The Elixir of Immortality tells the ...
Speak Softly
By speaking softly at home we can teach children that shouting is not the most effective way.
