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HISTORY

A Business of Her Own: Jewish Women Entrepreneurs of the Past

While the quintessential Jewish woman of the past most likely did stir pots, roll pastry dough and haggle with vendors,…

EDUCATION

Up Close with Bracha Goetz

A Harvard graduate who just came out with her thirty-third book discusses her decades-long career as a writer of Jewish…

EDUCATION

What’s on Your Child’s Reading List This Summer?

Which book would you recommend children read this summer and why?

FAMILY

Growing Up In the Public Eye: Children of Rabbis

In the Limelight by Bayla Sheva Brenner Rabbi’s Son Syndrome by Dovid Bashevkin

FAMILY

In The Limelight

Despite the expectations, visibility and sacrifice, these children of rabbis or high-profile rebbetzins saw close-up what it means to take…

FAMILY

Rabbi’s Son Syndrome: Religious Struggle in a World of Religious Ideals

A rabbinic home, one would assume, would be the best environment in which to be raised in order to ensure…

RELIGION

Majoring in Rabbinics

“Everything I do in the rabbinate, I’ve done in OU-JLIC,”

EDUCATION

The Battle for Safe Schools

It’s very painful to be aware of what the security standards are and to know that your school falls short…

JEWISH LAW

KosherKopy: What Could Be Wrong With . . . Eating at a Vegetarian/Vegan Restaurant With a Lax Hechsher?

Even in the best-case scenario, there are hundreds of changes that need to take place before an “almost kosher” restaurant…

JEWISH LAW

What’s the Truth About. . . The Apple in the Garden of Eden?

By Ari Z. Zivotofsky Misconception: Chava fed Adam an apple in the Garden of Eden. Fact: The fruit’s identity is…

JEWISH LAW

The Future of Reproductive Medicine: What Does Halachah Say?

There is a real need for rabbinical scholars to gain a deeper understanding of new biotechnologies, as the Jewish community…

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