Welcome to Tractate Makkot.

How Judaism views wifebeating.

Ancient laws and modernity are brought together with the embrace of adoption in the Jewish community.

In the past couple of weeks I’ve had some very interesting enquiries from couples seeking to be married by a ...

Insufficient funds.

In 2013, I gathered together seven friends from my community to attend the JOFA Conference.  We clambered into my Toyota ...

Determining fitness.

Descendants of the biblical figure Aaron, kohanim enjoy special privileges.

Moments of uncertainity.

The test of a community is not how it receives the most powerful, but how it welcomes the most vulnerable.