Life

Earlier this week I blogged about non-Orthodox couples choosing to have an Orthodox rabbi officiate at their weddings. This post ...

This past weekend I went to the wedding of a friend of mine. During the ceremony, I cried. But not ...

Of course, Jews hold no monopoly on inter-denominational strife, but it was still eye-opening to read my friend Benjy Balint’s ...

June is a popular time for Jewish weddings. Being a newlywed myself, we went through all of the traditional aspects ...

First born sons have lots of responsibilities: being redeemed (Pidyon HaBen), fasting before Passover, and not losing their birthright to ...

In this week’s Forward, Leonard Fein takes on the anti-circumcision crowd (and makes a few jokes along the way):Google “circumcisionâ€? ...

Last month, I went to the bris of a colleague’s newborn son, and I was reminded how difficult these lifecycle ...

According to Jewish Women’s Archive’s This Week in Jewish History, on March 14, 1977 the New York Times published an ...

The title of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance’s 10th anniversary conference (held this weekend in New York) was Passion and ...

As the aspiring fiction writers among us know, novels (and certainly short stories) do not sell as well as non-fiction. ...