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A Woman's Own: 'A hole in the sheet' - the life of a woman who escaped from Gur hassidut

Sara Einfeld, 25-year old mother of two, ran away from her Gur Hasidic life. In the process she began a blog, called “ Hor Basadin ,” which attracts many struggling haredi women. Yediyot Aharonot exposed her story in last weekend's newspaper, and has si...

Modesty Blasé: Summertime, and the camping is easy - for some

There’s no need to take your tefillin to the atheist summer camp. Just launched in the UK, Camp Quest UK, modelled on its North American counterpart, offers a "residential summer camp for the children of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and...

Reform Reflections: The shawl and the hood

We should all be relieved - a great disaster has been averted in the heart of Jerusalem. A woman was arrested yesterday for causing a heinous threat to public order. She was carrying a document so subversive that it has been suppressed and vilifie...

Masorti Matters: The true desecrators of our Jewish tradition

Let's get something straight. The State of Israel is a democracy, not a theocracy. However, the lines are frequently blurred as Israel is also a Jewish state and often reflects Jewish values. Unlike the American system that creates a "wa...

Orthodox Opinions: Asking for forgiveness from the convert

When Yom Kippur opens, more than millions of Jews will inaugurate the holiest day of the year with the biblical phrase" ve-nislach le-chol adat bnei yisrael, ve-lager hagar btocham," Loosely translated, we beseech God to forgive the sins of the en...
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    Posted in Guest Blog by Ruth Wasserman (nee Lande)
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    Tuesday Nov 24, 2009
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    Posted in Green-Lined by Yisrael Medad
    Sunday Nov 22, 2009