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Building a Community of Women: Chaya Fishman

The seeds of entrepreneurship were implanted in twenty-five-year-old Chaya Fishman at a young age. After a teacher challenged her to…

BUSINESS

Making Your Dream House Come True: Chaya Ruchi Gross

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Such is the…

BUSINESS

Dappling in Cleaning Formulas: Tamar Rosenthal & Dana Rubinstein

Why am I using fluorescent green products to clean my baby’s bottle? Dana Rubinstein, a mother and attorney, asked herself…

BUSINESS

Growing a Tree of Knowledge: Nechama Salfer

Salfer continuously emphasizes that in order to succeed at entrepreneurship, one cannot be afraid of making mistakes, even big mistakes.

PEOPLE

Doing Time with the Rabbi: A Day in the Life of a Prison Chaplain

The sky hung low as I drove upstate to the Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch, New York, this past May.…

HISTORY

RABBI MEIR BAR-ILAN: FORGOTTEN PIONEER OF JEWISH ACTIVISM

With the recent celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mizrachi Religious Zionists of America, we highlight the life of…

PEOPLE

Talking with Allen I. Fagin

By Mayer Fertig   Mayer Fertig, chief communications officer of the Orthodox Union, converses with Allen Fagin, newly named executive…

JEWISH WORLD

Why the Lubavitch Movement Thrives in the Absence of a Living Rebbe

By Jack Wertheimer Lubavitch Chassidism is a movement of many paradoxes. Upon the Rebbe’s passing and with no evident successor…

ISRAEL

On and Off the Beaten Track in . . . Yad Vashem

  Israel’s National Holocaust Memorial I am writing this article while seated on a train in Poland, traveling between Warsaw…

PEOPLE

An Unparalleled Leader

In honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s 20th yahrtzeit this summer, Jewish Action asked a number of contributors to reflect on…

PEOPLE

The Rebbe and the Rav

There was a knock on the door when I was visiting my rebbe, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, to express my condolences…

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