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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rock and Roll

This is a guest post by Rabbi Darby Leigh.It was 1984 when Dee Snider first asked me what I wanted ...

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 ...

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