Because of all the Jewish brides – in this book, out of this book and in the future – we Jews will endure.
100 Jewish brides
Found in The Independent
Defeating antisemitism is not my task nor is it the task of the Jews.
Like all demons, the labor pains appeared first at night.
Before the election, Treasurer Jim Chalmers promised
a Labor majority would deliver more Australian babies.
Jewish law has sustained a distinctive jurisprudence on reproduction and birth control throughout its history.
It is a haze of fog and low cloud at dawn and the kookaburras are wild with ecstasy. The soft low click of the neighbors’ gate breaks in among the birdsong:
On October 9, 2023, the Sydney police issued a warning. Jews: Do not go to the city.
Defeating antisemitism is not my task nor is it the task of the Jews.
Like all demons, the labor pains appeared first at night.
Found in Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood
We are exceedingly busy doing absolutely nothing. Washing our hands again and again then washing…
The strongest human need is the need for each other. We wish for connection, we ache when we cannot find…
We are in isolation now we and all the world. Each household on its own. And in our isolation, we are…
It is my custom to go to shul on the mornings when my people celebrate the birth of the new moon.
Today I begin a new job and once again I’m davening on the train. I had not planned it like this.
I spent the week between my son’s birth and his circumcision on the kitchen floor, breast pump in…
Choosing a partner in marriage is such a finicky matter today.
The idea that Jews desisted from creating beautiful artifacts after the Temple was destroyed is a myth.
Weeks before I left Australia forever, bulldozing through final law school exams…
There is not a segment of Earth that is not touched by America. Although Americans see themselves as diverse
My first encounter with Torah was in the sunroom of a dilapidated schoolhouse near Bondi Beach…
When my boss offered me the sole US ticket at an international finance boondoggle, I was so flattered that
The sun falls between the leaves outside the kitchen window as I prepare for my first Sabbath alone.
I came to America in the hope of a husband, leaving my birthplace and my parents’ loving home ten thousand…
The Raise Your Spirits production company was formed during the second intifada so the women of Gush…
April 15 is the day Americans must file their taxes, which means that for Jewishly observant accountants…
I am forbidden close physical contact with any man other than my father and grandfather, son and grandson, and - periodically - husband.
Apparently, I was going to be my children's primary exposure to Hebrew.
There has been a divine hullabaloo this year about titles given to and withdrawn from women performing rabbinic roles in Orthodox synagogues….
It feels less lonely with another breadwinning mother at the top.
It happens that the fourth time my son puts tefillin will be in the Frankfurt airport, on his way to Jerusalem.
One of the great debates after I became engaged to a Rabbi was how I would be addressed by my husband’s congregation. I did not plan on changing either my….
explains the law, considers the customs surrounding the practice, and includes the voices of women from around the world who are moved by the nature of this challenging observance.
One of the few books to consider the very personal, yet also public, matter of married Jewish women covering their hair.
A religious woman in our town left her husband and three children this year and ran off with another man. Poor, lucky woman her neighbors murmur….
What a mercy it was to be excused from ‘layning’ before that crowd! A private coming of age was a divine blessing.
Standing on the edge of the mikve pool, lighted and hidden by candlelight, in the midst of a total electrical blackout and of the darkness of the intifada, we…
Tonight is the fourteenth night of my menstrual cycle and I am going to the mikva. Ever since I first saw blood two weeks ago, I have not touched my husband…
Every visit in the Jewish world started with a quick once-over, and I was slotted into a category based on my dress.
As she approached her Jewish majority, our family opened discussions on finding a high school for our firstborn daughter. A thrill of excitement quickened in…
You have to admire Israel’s kosher entrepreneurship. All a person needs is a bit of food, a hungry customer, a logo and – presto! – a new hechsher is born.
Washington was the city of storms last winter. Drifting white avalanches flattened the accumulated cynicisms of the capital, a wordless prophetic damnation.
A three-day festival may be the only extended time we spend with our landsmen. The luah tells us we must.
Good frum girls don't make Bat Mitzvahs-such was the prevailing view when I was growing up…
I live with my parents and my children on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and Sydney Harbour.
I Used to Think My Résumé Was Impressive-Until I Moved to Washington An Australian Degree Means About as Muсь as One From Transylvania.
People are always aghast when they hear me address my father. I call him by his distinctive Hungarian nickname, and he never protests.
Weeks before I left Australia forever, bulldozing through final law school exams, I was called upon to form a women’s prayer group.
Under Jewish law, an aguna is, literally, an "anchored woman," one whose husband refuses to grant her a divorce.
Almost two thirds of those in London’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community contracted Covid-19 last year, a study has found.
It is hard to imagine a book about medieval Jewish women being a bestseller, but in Israel this book was.
The revelation of Torah at Sinai, the foundation of their belief, occurred more than 3,000 years ago, when equality for women was unimaginable.
It’s odd to have a coffee-table book about agunot, women who can’t get Jewish divorces,
Twenty years after getting my first license, I am certainly an inexperienced driver but a first-class flunker.
Charity, I believed, should provide the recipient with tools to fend for herself.
Male homosexual sex is a to’eva and is punishable by death. The majority of Jews today perform acts which the Bible would punish similarly, such as willfully desecrating Shabbat.
Abominable dilemmas
The Raise Your Spirits production company was formed during the second intifada so the women of Gush Etzion could stand against Arab terror with song.
And the Lord said to him, Who gave man a mouth? Or who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
When I left for work this morning, there were four men taking care of the home front.
For a year I tramped America searching for a suitable Orthodox high school for our daughter.
One of the loveliest but least observed mitzvot of the springtime is birkat ilanot, the blessing on the trees.
Ten years ago, as a recent Australian immigrant, I was initiated into the American rite of Thanksgiving. How outraged I was!
The Germans should pay for their successive degradation of our humanity, but reparations are a mean and cruel salve.
The Germans should pay for their successive degradation of our humanity, but reparations are a mean and cruel salve.