The Making of a Mezuzah

Nowadays, no one who keeps kosher would ever consider buying meat without certification. No one would say, ‘well, this looks kosher to me, I’m sure…

How day schools are doubling down on student cell phone use

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 the central functions of the…

Parental religious misalignment—when a husband and wife have varying levels of observance and faith—is not exactly an unknown phenomenon in the Orthodox community. 

The feeling of hypocrisy this engendered—and “secondary consequences” such as bullying from peers—eventually became a factor in their decision to leave the community. 

What the study reveals about relationships with religious figures

. . . the experience of leaving [the community] is not binary. Very often, connections remain that are real, important and personal and shape people’s…

Marking New Chapter of Growth and Expansion 

After forty years of marriage, the freedom was at times exhilarating, but when I came home, nobody was waiting for me. The house was as…