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Judaism: Questions From a Feminist By Tzvi Freeman

Isms are the creation of the Hegelian mind which is compelled to pigeonhole all human thought into...

Seasons: The Holy Temple

What was the Holy Temple' Why was it destroyed' Do we have anything like it today' Do we really...

Seasons: The Pinch

Hydraulic power plants, rockets and garden hoses all use it to squeeze a greater degree of power...

Living: Confessions of a Lazy Millionaire By N. Ozick

People can organize their budgets any way they want, but I personally ascribe to the accounting...

Living: Crazy Stories From Dubrovnik, Croatia By Yisroel...

We were on a busy street corner helping an Israeli tourist put on tefillin. Suddenly, I felt a tap...

Living: No Criticism Please! By Sara Chana Radcliffe

Criticism hurts. It hurts so much it can destroy any relationship. Yet, despite the cost of...

Women: The Story of Irena Sendler By Chana Kroll

Almost as soon as the Nazi occupation began, Irena began making forged documents for Jewish...

Women: The "O" Word by Shalvi Weissman

Besides the problem with the idea of labels in general, and the inappropriateness of the term...

Women: My Birth Plan by Mandy Gaziel

I listened, said goodbye, and then thought about it. Was I trying to control the situation because...

Women: No Other Mother By Tzippora Price

When I close the door of my home, there is no other mother. To my children, I am the only mother in...

Parshah: The Parshah in a Nutshell

Fathers, daughters and husbands; vengeance and war spoils; east and west, tribalism, havens for...

Parshah: A Timely Yahrtzeit By Naftali Silberberg

What is so remarkable about the timing of Aaron's yahrtzeit that it merits explicit mention in...

Parshah: The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life By Elisha...

A smoker once told me that quitting was dead easy; he personally had stopped dozens of times...

Parshah: First Things First By Shlomo Yaffe

The tribes had put sheep first, then children. But can it then be that that they actually loved...

Parshah: The Eastern Colonists

Why the dramatic shift in Moses' view on the Jewish settlement of the eastern territories' If...