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Briefcases and Baby Bottles: The Working Mother’s Guide to Nurturing a Jewish Home

The Jewish world has an uneasy relationship with the working mother. On the one hand, we understand that she is…

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The Greening of American Orthodox Judaism: Yavneh in the 1960s

Professor Benny Kraut’s delightful history of the Yavneh student organization shows how college students can and have permanently altered the…

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The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting & Rethinking Jewish Tradition

Rabbi David Hartman was once a leading student of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik but his intellectual path has long since…

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The Taryag Companion

A rabbi’s contribution to the extensive minyan hamitzvot literature, books that count and explain the Torah’s 613 commandments, serves as…

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On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

The Eastern European shtetl, for which we often wax nostalgic, began its decline in the mid-nineteenth century as the combination…

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Coming of Age: An Anthology of Divrei Torah for Bar and Bat Mitzvah

If you are asked to speak at a family or a friend’s simchah, you probably won’t have too much trouble…

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Defining the Moment: Understanding Brain Death in Halakhah

The halachic issues surrounding organ donation and brain stem death have hovered in constant conflict for over three decades.

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Kosher Jesus

In the food industry, kosherization is a method to purge a vessel of non-kosher absorption. It is achieved through the…

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Miles Away, Worlds Apart

Scott Rothstein was a very successful Florida attorney. His law firm, RRA, employed seventy lawyers. He made generous donations to…

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In the Narrow Places: Daily Inspiration for the Three Weeks

The Three Weeks between the fasts of Shivah Asar B’Tammuz and Tishah B’Av is a period of somber communal mourning.…

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Hush

Eishes Chayil is a pseudonym for Judy Brown, the author of Hush, a book that has been described by some…

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