Haredi man indicted for harrasment after insulting female Israeli soldier on bus

Published on December 29, 2011

A haredi Orthodox man who insulted a female soldier after she refused to sit in the back of a city bus was charged with sexual harassment.

To call or not to call - that is the question…

By Julia Bendis
Published on September 22, 2011

Body of Munich man found in Ecuador river

Published on August 15, 2011

The body of a 21-year-old Jewish man from Munich was found by residents of a town along Ecuador's Pastaza River.

Chivalry is Dead!

By Julia Bendis
Published on June 16, 2011

Everyone is Suddenly Irish on March 17th!

By Julia Bendis
Published on March 18, 2011

NPR’s Ronald Schiller is Hot!

By Tamara Shayne Kagel
Published on March 17, 2011

Dating Creeds

By Dara Lehon
Published on April 6, 2006

According to some once-doting men, I'm terrific. I'm also beautiful, talented, smart, sassy, funny, dynamic, cute and sweet. To make matters worse, I'd make a fantastic mother. And the final blow? Apparently ... I'm a catch. I listen intently to my lover-gone-evil dumper's compliments -- and cringe. Somehow my fairy tale has gone awry.

My New Muse

By Steve Greenberg
Published on November 10, 2005

A funny thing happened on the way to becoming a regular Jewish Journal singles columnist.

Curse you, JDate.

He’s my ...

By Teresa Strasser
Published on April 7, 2005

The term "boyfriend" is like the knee joint on someone who is morbidly obese. It is being asked to do way more than it was designed to do. It is buckling under the pressure. Where it once could do the job, it is now carrying too much weight

Learning to Breathe

By Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater
Published on January 6, 2005

For the last several years I have had a relationship with a man in prison, and I have seen how his soul has become anguished and diminished by sitting in that cell.

I met William after he was released from prison the first time, and I helped him get back on his feet. Now I write him words of comfort from the Psalms, from the Torah and from meditations that I have found to enhance an ailing spirit.

Superflirt

By Carin Davis
Published on August 19, 2004

Faster than a benching rabbi. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall bachelors in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's SuperFlirt.

Wonderousness of the First Time

By Joan G Friedman
Published on August 12, 2004

When the date was set, everything came into focus. He really will become a bar mitzvah. How exciting the whole year became. Bobby knew his prayers and haftarah very well. No one was concerned about that. He began to work on his sermon and master that, too.

The Haunted Divorce

By Adam Gilad
Published on February 19, 2004

Setting out onto the yellow brick road of singlehood at 40, I could already see it would be a haunted trail. Those of us, man or woman, who have been married a long time, who have birthed children together, dandled and diapered them together, those of us who thought we were building lifelong partnerships before we were betrayed or bored or desolate or dead inside, cannot help but be haunted.

Finished

By J.D. Smith
Published on January 1, 2004

It has been said that a man is not complete until he is married. Then, he is finished.

Well, I got married.

When last we visited these pages, I was on my way to the altar. My long-suffering girlfriend -- lets call her Alison, although I can't see why we should, when her name is and always was Amy -- agreed to the terms. She has since told me there was nothing in the ceremony about "obey," and you can only imagine how much I wish I had paid more attention before the rings were exchanged.

The Multifaceted World of Wiesel

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 10, 2002

One of the most interesting aspects of "Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular," a one-hour autobiographical television documentary, lies in revealing the many aspects of a man, revered mainly as the most authentic voice of the Holocaust.

SJM Seeks Perfect Woman

By J. D. Smith
Published on August 16, 2001

Joanne, my relationship advisor, insists that the source of my problem is that I don't know what I want.

What is Your Name?

By Rabbi Ed Feinstein
Published on January 25, 2001

God created the animals and brought them, one by one, before man to see what he would name them. Man examined the essence of each creature and assigned its name. So teaches Genesis.

In Praise of the Righteous Enemy

By Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
Published on April 8, 1999

Once again, the anniversary of the Holocaust is upon us (April 13), and, once again, the commemoration taunts me. "Go preach the goodness of God." "Go praise the crown of God's creation made but little lower than the angels." "Speak to the world of faith and hope in the wake of the terrifying knowledge: 1.5 million children murdered because of their Jewishness, nine out of every 10 European rabbis slaughtered, one third of a people decimated."

A Better Strategy

By Marlene Adler Marks
Published on January 7, 1999

History never precisely repeats itself. I was cleaning up after dinner the other evening when I heard my daughter, Samantha, now nearly 17, on the phone; she was talking with a guy named Vinnie.
"Vinnie?" I said, as she hung up. "I think we should be focusing on Jewish guys now, don't you?"

"He's a friend, Mom," said Samantha.

And to my surprise, I let it go at that because I wasn't sure what else to do.