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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. ...