Practices

There’s a fascinating back-and-forth over at The Atlantic between Jeffrey Goldberg and Ta-Nehisi about exoticism and intermarriage in the black ...

I’ve been dreaming about my mother a lot recently. A while back I wrote about how I’m not one of ...

Last Friday night, my sister was at a friend’s house for dinner. They had a filling Shabbat meal, sat around ...

I was really confused when I first saw the headline of this article from Ynet news: Haredi surfers interfering in ...

You know how Amazon (and its less evil compatriots) cuts off holiday shipping, what, like two weeks before Christmas starts? ...

Last night I attended The Kosher Quandary: Ethics and Kashruth, which was the inaugural event of Yeshiva University’s new student ...

Several people have forwarded me this email in the past two days:Dear Friends, Last Shabbat, in my sermon, I offered ...

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Salon is featuring a question about someone who doesn’t want to let shomer Shabbat people into her building: Dear Cary, ...

In Denmark, a bill was proposed which would prohibit the circumcision of any men before the age of 15. Ynet ...