halakha

I had been thinking about my eldest daughter’s bat mitzvah for a long time. We belong to a Modern Orthodox ...

Proponents and opponents of Partnership Minyans have jointly fostered a single narrative. In that narrative, the only relevant technical halakhic ...

Women receiving aliyot (being called to the Torah) in Orthodox synagogues is a relatively new phenomenon. Its most prominent proponents are ...

In Pirkei Avot 2:10 we are taught that Rabbi Eliezer said, יהי כבוד חברך חביב עליך כשלך “Let your neighbor’s dignity be precious ...

I am learning the laws of niddah, laws that relate to menstruation and sexuality, with a group of women. It has ...

When I got married, there were a million things on my to-do list. There was one thing, one pretty important ...

“Question authority!” was the mantra of my peer group when I was coming of age in the late ’60s. How ...

Kol Sasson Congregation was founded in Skokie, Illinois in 2003 as a Shira Hadasha-style minyan. At first, we met on ...

This summer, I had the privilege of attending a conference about Partnership Minyanim, hosted by Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem. I ...

I was a Girl Scout for ten years, from 3rd-12th grade. I learned how to start a fire, cook for ...