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Yesterday was a big day for our family. My daughter graduated from college. She was the fourth of our five ...

An Orthodox rabbinic colleague Rabbi Zev Farber recently posted on Morethodoxy a piece on the experience of place women have ...

   I can’t seem to decide, do I want to move America “Forward” or do I “Believe in America”?  I’m ...

Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...

I recently made my first exploratory college visit with my high school aged son.  My initial reaction during the tour ...

Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...

Several years ago at a writing conference, I was listening to a panel of agents and editors talk about how ...

A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...

Every year I get a call from my mother, “Remind me again, do we eat peanuts on Passover?”This question should ...

I have been an active participant in a group of Muslims, Christians and Jews that meets two to three times ...

I prepared the bimah with two kiddush cups, a bottle of kosher wine and a glass wrapped in a white ...

Women and women’s rights have received a lot of attention in politics and media in recent weeks.  March is Women’s ...