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Women and the Fulfillment of Positive Time-Bound Commandments

Can women take on commandments from which they are exempt?

Rabbi Yochanan once became ill, and Rabbi Hanina went to visit him. He asked him, “Are your sufferings welcome to ...

My best friend sent me this parody video, Brokeback Beit Midrash. As you might expect, it’s a parody of Brokeback ...

So far this week, Dani Shapiro wrote about moving from Jewish N.Y. to churchy Connecticut and how to find Jews ...

On Monday, Dani Shapiro wrote about moving from Jewish NY to churchy Connecticut.In many ways, our move from the city ...

Failing to give a get is a type of domestic abuse.

Creating reshut hakallah--the domain of the bride.

Dani Shapiro is the author of the memoir Devotion. She will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and ...

This morning I got an email from my friend Dugans (of the awesome band Dreams in Static) asking, “Hey, isn’t ...

“Where does God exist?” the rebbe asked several of his followers. “Everywhere,” the surprised disciples responded. “No,” the rebbe answered. ...

Parashat Kedoshim teaches us the ways to be holy. But do women have a different understanding of what holiness is?

When I first moved to San Francisco, there was a huge outcry in the Orthodox community — a positive outcry, ...