The Rabbi Who Unchained Women // My father witnessed the pain of agunos...
“Is this the residence of Chana Sharfstein? May I speak to her, please?” The woman on the phone sounded anxious, tense and quite uncomfortable.
“Good...
On the search for my daughter’s shidduch // We didn’t want...
T
he Sanderses don’t want to send their daughter to Monsey.
That was the explanation we gave the shadchan when he suggested the Brown boy for...
Back Again // From challah to tefillin to yeshivah by Shterna Karp
W
ith a loud ring, the last Friday bell rang on the campus of Spanish River High, a public school in Central Boca Raton, Florida....
The Unsuspecting Passengers // Was the person on the bus a bachur or...
For once, I was the one with the car. As a lecturer in numerous seminaries in Yerushalayim and elsewhere in Eretz Yisrael, I tend...
An Unlikely Kinship // How a Zionist attorney and the founder of the...
Chana Chovav-Maizel of Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem, has spent nearly six decades as a real estate attorney and has represented religious institutions and yeshivos as...
It’s Only Stuff // Making amends for what you can— and...
It’s one of those memories that still make me cringe. It was January 1984. I was 16 years old, one of five counselors who...
Pulled Back from the Brink of Dementia // How a decidedly low-tech cure...
I had been getting distress calls for the past few weeks, but this time my sister’s alarmed tone left no room for inaction. “It’s...
Beyond the Surface // Creating another reality
In this week’s parshah, we meet two more of our saintly Imahot, Rachel and Leah. Rachel, the Torah tells us, was yefat to’ar v’yefat...
The Troubling Teacher Shortage // Why are schools losing their teachers? By Devorie...
Areader recently reached out to Ami with her story:
My husband and I come from chashuve families. We’re a family of rebbeim, morahs and prominent...
The Bomb Scare // What did these policemen want with me? By Debbie Krausz
My ninth month was fast approaching, and I was going to be traveling alone to London. I was very excited about the birth of...
