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Teaching My Little Girls Tolerance With “My Little Boy”
“Could you read us another chapter? Could you?” Miri asked. I had just finished reading the second to last chapter of “My Little Boy” to my kids for their bedtime story, but they wanted more; clearly...
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Yes, You Can Be Orthodox & Be Friends With Gay People
When my generation, the Baby Boomers, was fighting for civil rights, for “women’s liberation” and to end the war in Viet Nam, it would have occurred to almost no one that the next frontier would be gay...
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I Won’t Force My Kids to Attend High Holiday Services
That’s right. You heard me. I’m not doing it. I, a member of a Modern Orthodox shul, mother of four Jewish kids who keep kosher and observe Shabbat weekly, executive director of an Atlanta Jewish day...
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This Kippah-Clad 12-Year-Old is the Next Food Network Star
Apparently 2014 is a good year for bar mitzvah boys. Earlier this year, 12-year-old Josh Orlian wowed and/or horrified audiences with his verrry dirty comedy routine on “America’s Got Talent.” Then...
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Q&A with the Founders of The Binah School–A Different Kind of Orthodox Girls...
The Binah School is a new, 21st century all-girls Jewish middle and high school in Sharon, Massachusetts that integrates project-based learning with real world problem solving, text-based Judaic...
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When Having That Huge Orthodox Family is Too Overwhelming
I only have one sibling, a brother, four-and-a-half years younger than me. The world of massive families and children born less than two years apart was so foreign to me that I didn’t even know it...
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Since My Marriage Ended, I’m Left Wandering
During Sukkot, we remember how God freed our ancestors from slavery in the land of Egypt. We build sukkahs, flimsy booths meant to recreate the temporary dwellings used while we wandered across the...
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That Time I Became Too Religious For My Father
When I first started exploring Jewish learning and observance in my late teens, all of my family and friends thought I had lost my mind. But there was one person who was especially opposed to my...
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My Husband Left Orthodoxy, but I Didn’t Leave Him
“It’s not going to work.” In a quest to find himself, my husband of many years had left the path of Torah. I am an ultra-Orthodox woman, and when I married my husband, he was also ultra-Orthodox. My...
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We Finally Have Our Baby But We Lost Our Faith in God
It finally happened. Six years, 14 IVF cycles, eight pregnancies, and we finally took our little girl home. She’s healthy, happy, and growing like a weed. In my wildest dreams (and there was plenty of...
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