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I went shopping for a new tallit (prayer shawl) at two competing Boston Judaica shops last week. In both stores I ...

On Shabbat, the 2nd of Av, about a week before Jews across the world fasted to mourn the destruction of ...

Young statisticians in love. Can you imagine their wedding? If you do, please don’t imagine anything stuffy or stilted. Because ...

I spent the last two years learning in a beit midrash (Jewish hall of study) in Israel. My beit midrash ...

My favorite pastime in the summer is going to my local town pool. There I can sit in the sun, ...

I spend most of my days and nights highlighting problem areas in Orthodox communities as well as viable solutions, with ...

Last night marked the beginning of the holiday of Tu B’Av. If you’ve never heard of it, you’re not alone. ...

I recently heard Rabbi Joseph Telushkin speak about the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe believed that words mattered so much that ...

In her JOFA post, “I Wasn’t Asking for Your Opinion,” Rabbanit Sharona Halickman rightfully criticizes the Orthodox Union for “only now ...

Dear Rabbi,I’m getting married! And I’m wondering if you’ll officiate. The wedding will be before sunset on Saturday and, well, ...

Many of us have read some of the recent memoirs written by people who have left their Orthodox community of ...

Or Shalom, Vancouver’s East-Side Shul, the synagogue I serve as spiritual leader, is a community of 200 households that has ...