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(Outside) The Gates Of Prayer

On Shabbat, the 2nd of Av, about a week before Jews across the world fasted to mourn the destruction of ...

Between the Holy and the Frustrating

It’s Friday afternoon in a quiet Maryland suburb. Cars pull into driveways and kids get off school buses, ready to ...

A Feminist Walks Into An Orthodox Synagogue

This past Sukkot, I was on a spiritual high after Yom Kippur. The sanctuary had swelled with voices of prayer ...

Supporting My Gay Son

This morning The Torch,  a project of JOFA, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, shared the heartwarming story of a family adjusting to ...

Living “Out” Within the Orthodox Community

I grew up 100 percent Camp Ramah and United Synagogue Youth (both Conservative movement institutions), but after marrying a Modern ...

Chayla on the Balcony

Looking at the award-winning photograph “Chayla in Shul” I wonder:What is Chayla thinking? Here she is. Alone in this cavernous ...

Exercising Religious Freedom

I’m a runner, a three-time marathoner. Whenever someone asks when I took up running, I say I started 12 years ago. ...