The Stranger Within Your Gates - by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

By Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Published on April 24, 2013

Canadian Mormons commemorate Yom Hashoah

By Mark Paredes
Published on April 21, 2013

Responding to Allegations of ‘Totalitarianism’ and to Other Saner Remarks About my Kotel Story

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 9, 2013

Partnership Minyanim: A Follow Up Response to Rabbi Barry Freundel

By Rabbi Zev Farber
Published on March 7, 2013

Guest Post – Reflections on Rabbi David Hartman z”l

By Rabbi Barry Gelman
Published on February 12, 2013

Stories of Jewish Conversion: Frank Siciliano

Published on September 27, 2012

Hearing the name Frank Siciliano, you would probably not immediately think “Orthodox Jew.” But this Jew by Choice, who has lived in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood for the past three years, is as passionate about his religion and his people as one can get.

But what is our GOAL?

By Rav Yosef Kanefsky
Published on August 23, 2012

Helping mothers have it all

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on June 27, 2012

The much-discussed article in the July/August Atlantic magazine begins with a story that likely will be familiar to any working mother. The author, Anne-Marie Slaughter, is at an evening work event talking to very important, very professional people, and all that’s really on her mind is the plight of her teenage son, who’s floundering at home without her.

Sex Education in Orthodox High Schools

By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Published on March 13, 2012

Sex Education in Orthodox High Schools

Published on March 13, 2012

Judaism’s Value of Happiness: Living with Gratitude and Idealism

Published on March 9, 2012

The Challenge of Offering Moral Rebuke in the Workplace

Published on March 7, 2012

Purim’s Gift

By Rav Yosef Kanefsky
Published on March 6, 2012

Are Taxes Fair, Good, or Jewish? A Defense of the Progressive Taxation

Published on March 5, 2012

Mormon Temples and Jews: The SWC Charade Continues

By Mark Paredes
Published on February 27, 2012

A Jew and a Mormon walk into a Bar…

By Rabbi Barry Gelman
Published on February 26, 2012

Who Wrote the Torah? Committed Theology in an Age of Skepticism

Published on February 24, 2012

Thoughts about death and living life -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

By Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Published on February 23, 2012

Desexualizing Public Space

By Rabbi Zev Farber
Published on February 7, 2012

Gabay’s new book makes the case for moderate Judaism

By Karmel Melamed
Published on June 12, 2011

Finding the sacred in the mundane

By Amy Klein
Published on February 14, 2008

Now, following the latest publishing craze of themed Jewish anthologies comes "Bread and Fire: Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday" (Urim Publications, 2008), edited by Rivkah Slonim (with consulting editor Liz Rosenberg). The 400-page compilation features writings from 60 women on topics including modesty, faith, childbirth, prayer, family, community, feminism and, in one way or another, Orthodox Judaism.

Letters

Published on June 23, 2005

Letters to the Editor

Attack on Writers Verges on Ridiculous

By Ruth Andrew Ellenson
Published on February 3, 2005

This past week, the New York Times Book Review ran a lengthy essay by writer Wendy Shalit titled "The Observant Reader." In it,

Shalit harshly criticized books she deemed to be unfriendly to Orthodox Judaism. Even worse than the books, she asserted, were some of their writers, including such literary luminaries as Tova Mirvis ("The Outside World") and Nathan Englander ("For the Relief of Unbearable Urges").

Life of a Footsoldier

By Andrea Adelson
Published on April 3, 2003

Shmuel Marcus is a bit like the lucky son of an ambitious frontier storekeeper, who relies on family to staff a second storefront.

Since January, Marcus, 27, has operated Orange County's newest Chabad from a living room alcove of the second-floor Cypress apartment he shares with his 25-year-old wife, Bluma, and two young children.

Scion of an unusual family, Marcus has joined the equally unusual society of shluchim (emissaries). They are foot soldiers for a powerful ideology of outreach by the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Orthodox Judaism. Trailblazers like Marcus must solicit their own financial support and, with their wives, make a lifetime commitment to remain in often-remote areas, ranging from Armenia to Zaire. In not-so-remote California, 20 new sites are planned this year alone in places such as Calabasas and Monterey. The Golden State already has the largest concentration of Chabad centers outside of Israel.

Searching for ‘Esther’

By Mike Levy
Published on June 14, 2001

Wendy Graf's new comedy "The Book of Esther" focuses on a central character named Mindy, who, like Queen Esther, bravely declares her Jewishness in the face of opposition. Unlike Esther, Mindy doesn't save the Jewish people, but confronts her ardently secular family and friends when she discovers her religion.

Enthralled by Talk

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on August 24, 2000

Award-winning mystery writer Rochelle Krich, the "Orthodox Agatha Christie," has a confession: "I became a talk show junkie during the O.J. Simpson trial," sheepishly admits Krich, 52, the author of nine whodunits in as many years. "When the trial was over, I still needed my fix."