A Twisted Path: There are many different roads to return
“Chance” meetings and “coincidental” events often figure largely in stories about unaffiliated or disinterested Jews returning to observant Judaism. I’ve seen this in my...
Shalom Bayis is Important— Really
I went through the Bais Yaakov system, both high school and seminary, and over and over again I heard that the most important thing for...
Leah Romm is determined to protect frum women in the workplace
Leah Romm has always balanced opposite worlds. She grew up as a Hebrew-speaking girl in Yerushalayim, but she went to seminary in Gateshead, England,...
Bringing Bubby: A family simchah is for the whole family
“Rafi’s getting married?”
It was two weeks before my son’s wedding, and I was both amused and annoyed by my mother’s question. On the one...
Aha! Moments: A True Believer
In 2007, the Los Angeles Bikur Cholim ran a campaign to raise money for poverty-stricken Holocaust survivors, with the funds going to pay their...
Nothing Swell About it at All: For years, my son’s extremities would blow up...
When your child has a rare disease that affects fewer than .01% of the population, it makes sense that most doctors won’t recognize it....
It Won’t Happen to Us: Dr. Neta Peleg-Oren Is Working to Stop Intermarriage Among...
I was a typical Israeli Jew—educated, successful and ambitious—when we made the momentous decision to move to Florida so I could continue my education.
I...
Purim, Revisited: Excerpt from the notebook of Mrs. Faigy Kurlansky
I don’t know what came over me this year, but it’s leil Purim, and I’m not running around like a chicken without a head....
Variations on a Theme: Who knew that Purim could be so complicated?
My life will forever be divided into PBT and PAT: Purim before themes, and Purim after themes. When I was a bachur, Purim was...
Passing the Bottle—Oops, the Buck: It was a Purim we will never forget
My son got married two weeks before Purim. As I walked sedately down the aisle, my arm in the crook of my son’s, a...
