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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: Take my advice: don't take my advice

A friend in North America has invited me to address a group of friends committed to Israel and also to a Liberal worldview. They are concerned about what they see as the disconnect between the pro-Israel stance offered by most in the Jewish establishment an...

Masorti Matters: Can kosher food be treif?

Most laws of Kashrut (Jewish dietary law) are pretty straightforward. No pork, shellfish, or mixing milk and meat. Some are a bit more complicated. All of these laws are spelled out in the traditional Jewish codes.   There has always been some disagr...

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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