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“He sat with me for half an hour, called his wife, took money from one place, borrowed from another place…
Even families that move away for one reason or another always come back to attend a Springfield simchah.
What do you need to build a community?
During my formative years, separation and divorce were taboo topics—no one spoke about them.
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan briefly served as editor of Jewish Life, the precursor to Jewish Action, in 1974. During his tenure,…
Nowadays, no one who keeps kosher would ever consider buying meat without certification. No one would say, ‘well, this looks…
The study aims to develop a more robust and wide-ranging understanding of the different ways and reasons people leave Orthodoxy.
When those raised Orthodox don’t stay Orthodox, it is seen—and indeed deeply felt—as a communal failure, as if one of…
