On March 21, 2002, a suicide bombing on Rechov King George in Jerusalem killed three people and injured eighty-seven. Though our apartment’s proximity to downtown Jerusalem is such that I recall… Read more
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The Best Is Yet to Be: Women Share Their Midlife Challenges and Triumphs
The Best Is Yet to Be: Women Share Their Midlife Challenges and Triumphs Edited By Miriam Lieberman Targum Press Brooklyn, 2011 447 pages Reviewed by Sarah Shapiro It has often been said that people… Read more
Up Close with Harold Gans
Nine years ago, Jewish Action published a fierce debate on the validity of the Torah Codes. Emotions ran high as the debate touched a raw nerve for many, though not always for the same reason.… Read more
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Frum and Fit: Are We Fulfilling Our Torah Obligation to Take Care of Our Bodies?
Coming from the holiday commemorating our receiving of the…
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Linking Ruth to Bereishit
By Yehuda Berenson In 1616, Rabbi Joel…
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Relating Pirkei Avot to Modern Times
Relevance: Pirkei Avos for the Twenty-First Century By Rabbi Dan…
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The Starbucks Talmud
The ArtScroll Digital Library Schottenstein Talmud App, Version…
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First Impressions of the Koren Talmud
Koren Talmud Bavli By Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz Koren…
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Helen Nash’s New Kosher Cuisine: Healthy, Simple & Stylish/The Bais Yaakov Cookbook/Temptations/Dash
Helen Nash’s New Kosher Cuisine: Healthy, Simple &…
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The Yom Kippur War : An American Volunteer Remembers
By Irwin H. Krasna It was Yom Kippur, October 6th, 1973,…
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Is Orthodoxy Unhealthy?
About a decade ago, a short time after I arrived in Oak Park,…
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The Courage to Serve: A Chareidi Woman in the IDF
By Fayga Marks Photo: Israel Sun An eight-year-old girl,…
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Please Put the Women Back In
I am an artist. Dealing with images is my stock and trade, and I…
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Life As a Happy Single Person
I bought couches. They are beige, with button detail on the sides…
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Touching Our Teens’ Neshamos
A quarter of students who come to college as Orthodox Jews…
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Confessions of a Kosher Organic Junkie
By Rachel Wizenfeld Melding my Berkeley organic roots with…
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Rising to the Occasion: Reviving the Practice of Standing up to Honor One’s Parents
“In the period that will precede the coming of Mashiach . . .…
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The Social Media Revolution: What Does It Mean for Our Children?
Shlomo Hamelech teaches us that there is nothing new under…
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