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There Are No Female Orthodox Jewish Extroverts
Or so many Jewish women teachers would have us believe. I have listened to many shiurim (religious classes) over the years that talk about the female spirit and female personality traits. I have read...
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Why Positive Stereotypes Can Still Hurt
It isn’t hard to convince people that making negative stereotypes about a certain group of people is a bad thing. Jewish people are no strangers to negative stereotyping and we have organizations,...
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Compromise is a Good Start
I was glad to see in an Associated Press report that Western Wall rabbi, Shmuel Rabinovich, has agreed to expand the Western Wall plaza to create a permanent area for mixed-gender and women-led...
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A Hit and a Miss
The Hit I was really excited to find the discussion of gay marriage discussed with empathy and compassion over at PopChassid. It doesn’t bother me that he doesn’t come out clearly for gay marriage;...
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Dangerous Women
Ahhh…and so it continues. This morning, despite a compromise looming toward law, Israeli police arrested five women (members of Women of the Wall or WOW) for wearing tallitot (prayer shawls) while...
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The Penguin Ball…or…Men in Black
Have you had any penguin sightings lately? Not the kind that live in Antarctica or your local zoo, but the kind that visit the zoo during chol moed. Living in an orthodox Jewish neighborhood is kind...
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Sex Segregated Park – Sex Segregated Parenting
Think public sex segregation is only happening in Israel? Think again! The Satmar community in the city of Kiryas Joel in Monroe, New York has built the world’s first sex segregated public...
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Honoring Fallen Women on Yom HaZikaron
Yom Hazikaron is Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers or any victims of terror who died since 1860, when Jews were first allowed to live in Israel outside of Jerusalem’s Old City walls. Here are...
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Spending Yom Ha’atzmaut in Galus
I found it both horrific and ironic that the Boston Marathon Massacre happened on Yom HaZikaron. Horrific for the obvious emotions that sudden and senseless death, injury, and destruction invoke....
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Hair of the Dog
Photo from myjewishlearning.com A few years ago my husband and I received a wedding invitation from friends marrying off their son. Being a modern orthodox family, we assumed that the wedding would...
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Of Morahs and Mommies
When my kids were little, one of them still is, they would often accidentally call me Morah (teacher). They would proceed to giggle, blush, and say, “I mean, Mommy!” I often wondered if they sometimes...
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Frum, Fabulous, and Fierce – A Female Chareidi IDF Soldier Tells Her Story
Photo courtesy of Fayga Marks via Jewish Action Magazine at http://www.ou.org/jewish_action/files/marks.jpg I really loved this article about Fayga Marks, a chareidi IDF soldier from Ramat Beit...
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If you prick us, do we not bleed?
Photo from privateinvestigations.blogspot.com There is an article that has been making it’s way around the web that discusses a new book on the laws of blood donation written by an orthodox rabbi...
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All roads lead to Galus…in the world of the Meshulach
Photo from http://yiddishforgentiles.wordpress.com The Meshulach Chronicles. I have so many aggravating stories about meshulachim (charity collectors) coming to my home. Men in black, usually from...
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There’s a Cat in the Aron Kodesh
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81022945@N00/314458278/ This June, Yeshivat Maharat will graduate it’s first class of female Orthodox religious leaders. A recent article in The Times of Israel profiles...
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To Be Loved is To Be Needed
http://www.rishona.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mechitza.jpg I just read a fabulous article by Rabbi Eliyahu Fink entitled, Don’t Blame Women for Not Going to Shul. The article tries to explain why...
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Catfish – The Rabbi Episode
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln2qqzofnH1qe6wyfo1_500.jpg Rabbi Michael Broyde might be the first catfish rabbi. For those unfamiliar, the term “catfish” was coined by a young man named Yaniv...
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Don’t Get it Twisted, Lapid – Haredi Women are Used to Hard Work
Photo by Hagai Fried in Haaretz-An employment fair for the Haredi community I have always been befuddled by the kollel lifestyle. Growing up in a secular home, I was raised to believe that the...
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Haredi High-Tech Heroes
Tehiya Dayan (left) and Lior Halavi (second from left) accept awards for their aerospace project. | Photo credit: Israel Hayom.com Anytime I hear about ultra orthodox Jewish women who expand beyond...
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Bulletproof Stockings
Not these…. These…. The hasidic Alt Rock Girl Band out of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Their music is inspired by the likes of Radiohead, the White Stripes, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction....
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