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Gender & Sexuality, Jewish Law, JOFA's Torch, Live, Study
Sex and Modern Orthodox Singles: Between Halakha and Reality
I was a Girl Scout for ten years, from 3rd-12th grade. I learned how to start a fire, cook for ...
Celebrate, Jewish Law, Live, Study, Women & Feminism
Birth Control – Emphasis on Control
I can clearly remember where I was sitting, in the midst of my Bible class during my final semester at ...
Divorce, Israel, Live, Rabbis Without Borders, Study
Appointing Judges Shouldn’t Be Taken Lightly
The Torah portion called Shoftim, the Hebrew word for judges, is always read at the beginning of the new month ...
Israel, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Behind Farm 54: The Making of the Graphic Novel by Galit & Gilad Seliktar
The graphic novel Farm 54 is based on three stories written by Galit Seliktar. The stories were first published in ...
My First Writing Group: The Internet
On Monday, Gloria Spielman wrote about the University of the Ghetto. Her most recent book, Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, is now ...
Denominations, Israel, JOFA's Torch, Live, Study
Turned Away From The Mikvah
I had been selected for a 10-day workshop at Yad Vashem for Jewish educators and planned to arrive early and ...
Celebrate, Rabbis Without Borders, Shabbat
Rock and Roll
This is a guest post by Rabbi Darby Leigh.It was 1984 when Dee Snider first asked me what I wanted ...
Jewish Thought, Rabbis Without Borders
On Civil Discourse
One of the most pathetic (in the original sense of evoking pathos) passages in the Talmud is one (Bava Metzia ...
Parashat Pekudei: Building God’s Beautiful Bayit; or, Queer Eye for the Desert Mishkan
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...
The Best Overlooked American Jewish Novelist
Stephen Dixon is, in my opinion, the best and most overlooked American Jewish fiction writer in the country. If I ...